Louis Jacquinot

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Louis Jacquinot during his term as High Commissioner of the Navy
Louis Jacquinot (left) and President of Upper Volta Maurice Yaméogo, 1960

Louis Jacquinot (16 September 1898 – 14 June 1993) was a French lawyer and politician, and chief of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's office.

Biography

Jacquinot was born in

Minister of Overseas France
(1951–52 and 1953–54).

After de Gaulle's return to power in 1958, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of scientific research and afterwards for the Sahara. As Minister of State, he was part of a "study group" formed by de Gaulle with the purpose of devising a constitution for the

Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic. He left parliament in 1973. Jacquinot married the wife of former Finance Minister Maurice Petsche in order to be elected president that year, but he was homosexual.[1]

He died in Paris in 1993.

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