13 Facts About Edgar Faure

Edgar Faure was nearsighted yet a brilliant student since his youth, earning a baccalaureat at 15, as well as a law degree at 19 in Paris.

Edgar Faure thus led the cabinet in 1952 and from 1955 to 1956.

Edgar Faure was a leader of the more conservative wing of the party, opposing the party's left, under Pierre Mendes France.

Edgar Faure's views changed during the Fourth Republic; after initial opposition to the Fifth Republic, he eventually became a Gaullist.

Edgar Faure declined to be a candidate at the 1974 presidential election, in which he supported Valery Giscard d'Estaing against the Gaullist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

Edgar Faure had the reputation of a careerist and the nickname of "weathercock".

Edgar Faure was a member of the National Assembly for the Jura department from 1946 to 1958, as well as for the Doubs department from 1967 to 1980.

Edgar Faure presided over the National Assembly from 1973 to 1978.

Edgar Faure sought another term as President of the Assembly President in 1978 but was defeated by Chaban-Delmas.

Edgar Faure was a Senator from 1959 to 1967 for Jura and again, in 1980, for Doubs.

Edgar Faure played a key role during the creation and first years of the Assembly of European Regions, becoming his first president in 1985 and staying in that position until 1988.

In 1931, Edgar Faure married writer Lucie Meyer, a daughter of a silk merchant.

Edgar Faure was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.