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Félix Gaillard
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| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958 | |
| President | René Coty |
| Preceded by | Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Pflimlin |
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| Born | (1919-11-05)5 November 1919 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 July 1970(1970-07-10) (aged 50) near Jersey |
| Political party | Radical |
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Félix Gaillard d'Aimé (French: [feliks ɡajaʁ]; 5 November 1919 – 10 July 1970) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon.[1]
A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined the Resistance and served on its Finance committee. As a member of the Radical Party, he was elected deputy of Charente département in 1946. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.
He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for the French Fourth Republic; his term of office lasted only a few months. Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by the French National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village.
President of the Radical Party from 1958 to 1961, he advocated an alliance of the center-left and the center-right parties. He represented a generation of young politicians whose careers were blighted by the advent of the Fifth Republic.
Gaillard was last seen alive on 9 July 1970, when he and three passengers boarded his yacht, the Marie Grillon and departed the island of Jersey to return to the French mainland after a brief stay. The next day, bits of the wreckage of the yacht were found at the Minquiers reefs, along with the bodies of the two passengers.[2] Gaillard's body was found, along with that of another passenger, floating in the English Channel on 12 July.[3]
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| Preceded by | Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1957 |
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| Preceded by | President of the Radical Party 1958–1961 |
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