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Qui fut le premier Premier ministre de la Ve République, nommé en 1959 ?

Translation: Who was the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic, appointed in 1959?

  • ✓ Michel Debré
  • B Georges Pompidou
  • ✕ Maurice Couve de Murville Your answer
  • D Pierre Mendès France

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Michel Debré, proche collaborateur de de Gaulle et l'un des rédacteurs de la Constitution de 1958, fut Premier ministre de 1959 à 1962. Georges Pompidou lui a succédé.

Michel Debré, a close associate of de Gaulle and one of the drafters of the 1958 Constitution, was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1962. Georges Pompidou succeeded him.

Source: gouvernement.fr, Encyclopédie Larousse

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