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Louis Joxe

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Louis Joxe


Minister of Justice
In office 1967–1968
President	Charles de Gaulle
Prime Minister	Georges Pompidou
Preceded by	Jean Foyer
Succeeded by	René Capitant

Personal details
Born	(1901-09-16)16 September 1901 Bourg-la-Reine, France
Died	6 April 1991(1991-04-06) (aged 89) Paris, France
Political party	UDR
Children	Alain Joxe Pierre Joxe

Louis Joxe (16 September 1901 – 6 April 1991) was a French statesman, judge, and politician. He was born in Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine.

Career

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Joxe, along with René Capitant, the resistance organization Combat-Algérie, the only branch of Combat outside of metropolitan France.^[1]

Ambassador of France to the USSR (1952–1955)
Ambassador of France to the Federal Republic of Germany (-July 1956)
Secretary General
Minister of National Education (from 15 January 1960 to 23 November 1960 and from 15 October 1962 to 28 November 1962)^[1]
Minister of Algerian Affairs (1960–1962) - signed the Évian Accords^[2]
Minister of Administrative Reforms (1962–1967)^[3]
Minister of Justice (6 April 1967 to 30 May 1968)^[3]
Deputy of Rhône (1967–1977)
Judge of the Constitutional Council of France

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He was married to Françoise-Hélène Halévy and was the father of the politician Pierre Joxe.^[4] Louis Joxe died in 1991, aged 89, in Paris.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "DIPLOMAT LOUIS JOXE DIES". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-01-17.

^ ^a ^b Saxon, Wolfgang; Times, Special To the New York (1991-04-07). "Louis Joxe, Gaullist, Dies at 89; Negotiated Algeria's Sovereignty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-17.

^ Adams 2006, p. 377.

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Adams, Geoffrey (2006). Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1945. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773576667.

Political offices
Preceded by Michel Debré	Minister of National Education 1960	Succeeded by Pierre Guillaumat
Preceded by Pierre Sudreau	Minister of National Education 1962	Succeeded by Christian Fouchet
Preceded by Jean Foyer	Minister of Justice 1967–1968	Succeeded by René Capitant

Authority control databases
International	FAST ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	France BnF data Germany Israel Belgium United States Netherlands
People	Deutsche Biographie Sycomore
Other	IdRef

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