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Born June 29, 1886 • Luxembourg
Died September 4, 1963 (aged 77) • Metz • France
Title / Office foreign minister (1948-1952), France
Founder Popular Republican Movement
Political Affiliation Popular Republican Movement
Role In Schuman Plan

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premier of France
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premier of France
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Maurice Couve de Murville
prime minister of France
Monnet, 1939
Jean Monnet
French politician
Pleven, René; Truman, Harry S.
René Pleven
premier of France
Jacques Delors
Jacques Delors
French politician
Faure, Edgar
Edgar Faure
prime minister of France
Paul Ramadier
premier of France
Antoine Pinay
prime minister of France
René Coty, c. 1949
René Coty
president of France
Auriol, c. 1947
Vincent Auriol
president of France
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
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The Red Eminence
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