Michel Debre
Michel Debre · Historical & Religious Figures
Prime Minister of France (1959-62) and principal author of the constitution of the Fifth Republic; son of the Jewish paediatrician Robert Debré.
15 January 1912, Paris, France — 2 August 1996, Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
Paris, France
Michel Debre is recognized among Jewish contributors to Historical & Religious Figures — Prime Minister of France (1959-62) and principal author of the constitution of the Fifth Republic; son of the Jewish paediatrician Robert Debré.
Principal author of the constitution of the French Fifth Republic and de Gaulle's first prime minister (1959-62), Michel Debré came from one of France's great Jewish families: his father was the paediatrician Robert Debré, who founded modern French paediatrics and UNICEF's forerunner, and his grandfather was a rabbi. Debré himself was raised and lived as a Catholic — he is here by the descent route, and the site says so plainly rather than quietly.
A resistance officer who escaped a German prison camp, he shaped the institutions under which France has now lived for two-thirds of a century.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Debré
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Prime Minister of France (1959-62) and principal author of the constitution of the Fifth Republic; son of the Jewish paediatrician Robert Debré.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Debré
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