1. Antoine Pinay was born on 30 December 1891 in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise.
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Antoine Pinay was a child of Claude Pinay, and his wife, Marie Antoinette Besson.
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On 25 April 1917, Pinay married Marguerite Fouletier and had two daughters and one son, Genevieve, Odette, and Pierre.
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Antoine Pinay was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1936, running as an independent candidate opposed to the Popular Front.
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In 1941, Antoine Pinay was appointed to the Conseil National of the Vichy regime.
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Antoine Pinay resigned from the Conseil National within a few months and refused any official position with the Vichy regime, such as the prefecture de l'Herault offered by Laval.
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Antoine Pinay gave several hundreds of identity papers to help Jews and members of the Resistance flee from France to Algiers or Switzerland.
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Antoine Pinay helped create a conservative party, the National Center of Independents and Peasants.
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Antoine Pinay acquired the reputation as one of France's more spirited politicians and in 1952 became prime minister by virtue of being the most popular elected CNIP official.
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Antoine Pinay's ministry was seen as the return of the "classical right", discredited since the Liberation.
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Antoine Pinay stabilized the finances of the French nation and the French currency.
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Antoine Pinay died 17 days before his 103rd birthday, and was buried in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise.
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From 14 December 1990, when former Republic of China Premier Zhang Qun died until his own death, Antoine Pinay was the world's oldest living former head of government.