Pierre Pflimlin
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Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle durin
Official portrait, 1984
May 1958 crisis in France
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The May 1958 crisis, also known as the Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May, was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic an
Pierre Pflimlin
…politician who 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. Pflimlin was born in Roubaix in the Nord department. A lawyer and a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he was elected…
Demonstration on rue du Faubourg-du-Temple in Paris on 1 June
Charles de Gaulle, pictured in 1958