Pierre Messmer
March 20, 1916 (109 years old) in Vincennes, France
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (French: [pjɛʁ mɛsmɛʁ]; 20 March 1916 – 29 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999; his seat was taken over by Simone Veil. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Messmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2017 · De Gaulle, the Last King of France as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · L’enfer de Matignon as Self
- 2003 · Death Squadrons: The French School as Self
- 2002 · The American Friend as Self
- 1975 · Destins: Général De Bollardière as Self