Of the many called to give rudderless France a new government, the sixth chose to try. Striding crisply into the National Assembly, bespectacled Edgar Faure (pronounced fore) asked to be accepted as ...

Edgar Faure, twice prime minister of France, died Wednesday at 79. Faure underwent gallbladder surgery Feb. 22 and stomach ulcer surgery two weeks later, said Dr. Paul-Henri Cugnenc of the Laennec ...

FRANCE Dexterous FellowFew expected Edgar Faure, France’s 21st Premier since World War II, to last long in the job. But last week, when the National Assembly adjourned with him still in control, he ...

At 11 am GMT, 27 January 1964, the Chinese and French governments issued a joint communiqué stating that "The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of France ...

Edgar Jean Faure (18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.