Raymond Barre

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Raymond Barre
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Prime Minister of France
In office August 26, 1976 – May 21, 1981
Preceded by	Jacques Chirac
Succeeded by	Pierre Mauroy

Born	April 12, 1924 La Réunion
Political party	UDF

Raymond Barre was born on April 12, 1924 in Saint Denis, the capital of the French island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean. He is a French center-right politician and economist.

Raymond Barre was initially professor of economics at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

An associate of center-right President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, he was close to his party, the Union for French Democracy.

While mostly unknown at that time he was chosen as Prime Minister in 1976 by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who coined him as the "best economist of France", and served from 1976 to 1981. He ran as UDF candidate for president in 1988, coming in third behind Socialist President François Mitterrand and Neo-Gaullist Prime Minister Chirac. From 1995 to 2001, he was mayor of Lyon.

Raymond Barre is probably the only French politician to have reached such high levels of responsibilities without having ever been a member of any political party. He always kept some distance with what he considered to be the political "microcosm".

From July 1967 to June 1970 he served as one of France's European Commissioners on the Rey Commission

[edit] Barre's First Government, 27 August 1976 - 30 March 1977

Raymond Barre - Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance
Louis de Guiringaud - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yvon Bourges - Minister of Defense
Michel Poniatowski - Minister of the Interior
Michel d'Ornano - Minister of Industry and Research
Christian Beullac - Minister of Labour
Olivier Guichard - Minister of Justice
René Haby - Minister of Education
Christian Bonnet - Minister of Agriculture
Jean-Pierre Fourcade - Minister of Equipment
Robert Boulin - Minister of Relations with Parliament
Simone Veil - Minister of Health
Robert Galley - Minister of Cooperation
Pierre Brousse - Minister of Commerce and Craft Industry
André Rossi - Minister of External Commerce
Vincent Ansquer - Minister of Quality of Life
Jean Lecanuet - Minister of Planning

[edit] Barre's Second Government, 30 March 1977 - 5 April 1978

Raymond Barre - Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance
Louis de Guiringaud - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yvon Bourges - Minister of Defense
Christian Bonnet - Minister of the Interior
René Monory - Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Craft Industry
Christian Beullac - Minister of Labour
Alain Peyrefitte - Minister of Justice
René Haby - Minister of Education
Michel d'Ornano - Minister of Culture and Environment
Pierre Méhaignerie - Minister of Agriculture
Jean-Pierre Fourcade - Minister of Equipment and Regional Planning
Simone Veil - Minister of Health and Social Security
Robert Galley - Minister of Cooperation
André Rossi - Minister of External Commerce

Changes

26 September 1977 - Fernand Icart succeeds Fourcade as Minister of Equipment and Regional Planning.

[edit] Barre's Third Government, 5 April 1978 - 22 May 1981

Raymond Barre - Prime Minister
Louis de Guiringaud - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yvon Bourges - Minister of Defense
Christian Bonnet - Minister of the Interior
René Monory - Minister of Economy
Maurice Papon - Minister of Budget
André Giraud - Minister of Industry
Robert Boulin - Minister of Labour and Participation
Alain Peyrefitte - Minister of Justice
Christian Beullac - Minister of Education
Alice Saunier-Seïté - Minister of Universities
Jean-Philippe Lecat - Minister of Culture and Communication
Pierre Méhaignerie - Minister of Agriculture
Michel d'Ornano - Minister of Environment and Quality of Life
Jean-Pierre Soisson - Minister of Youth, Sports, and Leisure
Fernand Icart - Minister of Equipment and Regional Planning
Joël Le Theule - Minister of Transport
Simone Veil - Minister of Health and Family
Robert Galley - Minister of Cooperation
Jacques Barrot - Minister of Commerce and Craft Industry
Jean-François Deniau - Minister of External Commerce

Changes

29 November 1978 - Jean François-Poncet succeeds Guiringaud as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
4 July 1979 - Jacques Barrot succeeds Veil as Minister of Health and Social Security. Maurice Charretier succeeds Barrot as Minister of Commerce and Craft Industry.
29 October 1979 - Jean Mattéoli succeeds Boulin as Minister of Labour and Participation.
2 October 1980 - Joël Le Theule succeeds Bourges as Minister of Defense. Daniel Hoeffel succeeds Le Theule as Minister of Transport. Michel Cointat succeeds Deniau as Minister of External Commerce.
22 December 1980 - Robert Galley succeeds Le Theule (d.14 December) as Minister of Defense.
4 March 1981 - Michel d'Ornano succeeds Lecat as Minister of Culture. No one succeeds Lecat as Minister of Communication.

Preceded by: —	Minister of External Commerce 1976	Succeeded by: André Rossi
Preceded by: Jacques Chirac	Prime Minister of France 1976–1981	Succeeded by: Pierre Mauroy
Preceded by: Jean-Pierre-Fourcade	Minister of the Economy and Finance 1976–1978	Succeeded by: René Monory

Prime Ministers of the French Fifth Republic <td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 1px" rowspan="2"> Image:Flag of France.svg </td>
Michel Debré • Georges Pompidou • Maurice Couve de Murville • Jacques Chaban-Delmas • Pierre Messmer • Jacques Chirac • Raymond Barre • Pierre Mauroy • Laurent Fabius • Jacques Chirac • Michel Rocard • Édith Cresson • Pierre Bérégovoy • Édouard Balladur • Alain Juppé • Lionel Jospin • Jean-Pierre Raffarin • Dominique de Villepin