Bernard Cornut-Gentille (26 July 1909[1] – 21 January 1992[2]) was a French administrator and politician.
Bernard Cornut-Gentille | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Posts | |
| In office 1959–1960 | |
| President | Charles de Gaulle |
| Prime Minister | Michel Debré |
| Preceded by | Eugène Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Michel Maurice-Bokanowski |
| Subprefect of Riems | |
| In office 1943-1945 | |
| High Commissioner in French Equatorial Africa | |
| In office 1948-1951 | |
| High Commissioner in French West Africa | |
| In office 1951-1956 | |
| French permanent representative to the United Nations Security Council | |
| In office 1956-1957 | |
| French ambassador to Argentina | |
| In office 1957 | |
| Minister Without Portfolio | |
| In office June 1, 1958-June 3, 1958 | |
| Minister of Overseas France | |
| In office June 3, 1958-January, 1959 | |
| Member of the French National Assembly, Gaullist Party | |
| In office 1958-1968 | |
| Mayor of Cannes | |
| In office 1959-1978 | |
| Member of the French National Assembly, non-inscrit | |
| In office 1973-1978 | |
| Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine | |
| In office 1945-1948 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 July 1909 Brest, France |
| Died | 21 January 1992 (aged 82) Paris, France |
| Political party | Union for the New Republic |
| Alma mater | École Libre des Sciences Politiques |
Born in Brest, Finistère,[1] Cornut-Gentille studied at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. In 1943 he was appointed as the Subprefect of Reims, but resigned to assist the Free French delegate Émile Bollaert.[3][4] Following the Liberation of France he served as Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine,[5] of the Somme,[6] and of the Bas-Rhin.[7] In 1948 he was appointed High Commissioner in French Equatorial Africa then, from 1951 to 1956, High Commissioner in French West Africa.[8][9]
After this, he served as France's permanent representative to the United Nations Security Council,[2] and in 1957 as ambassador to Argentina.[10]
Standing for the Gaullist Party, the UNR, he was elected to represent Alpes-Maritimes in the 1958 election to the National Assembly of France. He had been minister without portfolio in June 1958, then Minister of Overseas France from 3 June 1958 to 8 January 1959 in the governments of Charles de Gaulle. Under Michel Debré he served as Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones from 8 January 1959 to 5 February 1960. He resigned ministerial office at the same time as Jacques Soustelle, over the handling of the affair of the barricades in Algiers and broke with the Gaullists.
He sat in the National Assembly as an independent (French: non-inscrit) until 1968 and again from 1973 to 1978. Locally, he served as mayor of Cannes from 1959 to 1978. Here he initiated a programme of redevelopment and renovation.
His nephew François Cornut-Gentille has served as representative of the Haute-Marne department since 1993 and mayor of Saint-Dizier since 1995.
External links
edit- (in French) Biography at the website of the Assemblée nationale
References
edit- ^ a b Chroniques d'outre-mer: études et informations (in French). Documentation francaise, Éditions de la Présidence du Conseil. 1958. p. 3. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ a b "La mort de Bernard Cornut-Gentille Un esprit indépendant". Le Monde (in French). 25 January 1992. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Graux, Henry (1994). Mémoires d'Henry Graux, préfet du Calvados de 1940 à 1942 (in French). Conseil général du Calvados, Direction des Archives départementales. p. 110. ISBN 978-2-86014-015-7. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Coston, Henry (1963). L'assemblee introuvable: le trombinoscope de la Veme bis (in French). Imprimerie réunies. p. 70. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Who's who in France, Paris (in French). J. Lafitte. 1988. p. 1274. ISBN 978-2-85784-023-7. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Récueil des textes authentiques des programmes et engagements électoraux des députés proclamés élus à la suite des élections générales (in French). l'Assemblée nationale. 1958. p. 74. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Wittmann, Bernard (1999). Une histoire de l'Alsace, autrement: (Chap. XIV à XVI): 1940 à nos jours (in French). Ed. Rhyn un Mosel. p. 116. ISBN 978-2-9514359-0-2. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Steinberg, S. (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1956. Springer. p. 999. ISBN 978-0-230-27085-5. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial Governors. The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 32. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Recueil général des traités de la France (in French). Documentation française. 1976. pp. 673–674. Retrieved 24 February 2024.