Messmer, Pierre August Joseph
- Messmer, Pierre August Joseph
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▪ 2008
French Gaullist administrator and politician
born March 20, 1916, Vincennes, France
died Aug. 29, 2007, Paris, France
was minister for the armed forces (1960–69) under Pres. Charles de Gaulle and later prime minister (1972–74) under Pres. Georges Pompidou. Messmer trained as a lawyer and colonial administrator. After France fell to the invading Germans in 1940, however, he became a hero of the Resistance, fighting with de Gaulle's Free French across the Middle East and participating in the liberation of Paris in 1944. After the war he held several posts in colonial administration before de Gaulle appointed him armed forces minister. In that post Messmer helped quell an attempted coup by far-right army officers in 1961 during Algeria's war for independence from France. He also oversaw development of France's nuclear weapons program. Messmer left the cabinet after Pompidou's death in 1974, but he remained active in neo-Gaullist party politics. He was elected to the French Academy in 2000.
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