Christian Pineau [SEP] date of death
Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau (; 14 October 1904, in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France – 5 April 1995, in Paris) was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late 1950s.
Pineau was born in 1904 in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France. His stepfather was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say that it was Giraudoux who gave
of Rome.
He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.
Controversy.
As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre.
Death.
He died in Paris in 1993.
Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957.
- Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council
- Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
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