Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Pflimlin | |
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Pierre Pflimlin in 1975 | |
| 97th Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 14 May 1958 – 1 June 1958 | |
| President | René Coty |
| Preceded by | Félix Gaillard |
| Succeeded by | Charles de Gaulle |
| 14th President of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1984–1987 | |
| Preceded by | Piet Dankert |
| Succeeded by | Charles Henry Plumb |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin 5 February 1907 Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Died | 27 June 2000 (aged 93) Strasbourg, Alsace, France |
| Political party | Popular Republican Movement (1944-1966) Democratic Centre (1966-1976) Centre of Social Democrats (1976-1995) |
| Other political affiliations | Union for French Democracy (1978-1995) |
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ flimlɛ̃]; 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian democratic politician. He served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
More reading
- "The Little Plum" Time June 10, 1957 Archived August 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Cook, Bernard A. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 975–76.
- Morris, Peter. "Homo politicus; the political careers of Pierre Pflimlin and Jacques Chaban‐Delmas." Modern & Contemporary France 1.1 (1993): 42-44.