Maurice Schumann
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Maurice Schumann (10 April 1911 in Paris - 9 February 1998 in Paris) was a French politician and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou in the 1960s and 1970s. Schumann was a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement.
Born to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother, he converted to his mother's faith in 1937.
He once said of France's fate when suffering the Allied bombing raids, ‘….and now we are reduced to the most atrocious fate: to be killed without killing back, to be killed by friends without being able to kill our enemies’.
During a meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Community in 1969, he stated France's conditions for Britain joining the community on its third application, i.e. questions of agricultural finance had to be settled first.
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- Interview about the French nuclear program for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
- ordredelaliberation.fr
| Preceded by Gaston Palewski | Minister of Scientific Research and Atomic and Space Questions 1967–1968 | Succeeded by Christian de La Malène |
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| Preceded by Jean-Marcel Jeanneney | Minister of Social Affairs 1968–1969 | Succeeded by — |
| Preceded by Michel Debré | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1969–1973 | Succeeded by André Bettencourt |
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| Preceded by Wladimir d'Ormesson | Académie française Seat 13 1974–1998 | Succeeded by Pierre Messmer |
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