10 Facts About Yvon Bourges

Yvon Bourges was a French politician and colonial administrator.

Yvon Bourges was the final Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, serving from 1958 to 1960.

Yvon Bourges became a Gaullist in 1940 in the French Resistance and joined the prefectural administration in 1942, as an assistant to the prefecture of Rennes.

Yvon Bourges became Chief of Staff of the Somme prefecture two years later, the office of the Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine Philibert Dupard, then prefect Roger Martin to be decided during the liberation of France.

Yvon Bourges then participates in the transition of power and was appointed to posts in Amiens and Strasbourg.

Yvon Bourges entered politics in 1962 as a deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine and mayor of Dinard until 1967.

Yvon Bourges served under Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1975 as defense minister, increasing the budget and modernizing the equipment of the armed forces, notably by adopting the FA-MAS in 1975 and the launch of the nuclear submarine Inflexible.

Yvon Bourges left the cabinet to enter the French Senate in 1980.

Yvon Bourges was General counsel from 1964 to 1988, he met the head of the municipality of Dinard between 1971 and 1989 and, succeeding Raymond Marcellin, he chaired the Regional Council of Brittany from 1986 to 1998.

Yvon Bourges was MEP from 1973 to 1975, he chaired the Pan-European Movement from 1993 and published in 1999 "Europe our destiny".