Louis Jacquinot was a French

France

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 lawyer and politician, and chief of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré

Raymond Poincaré

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's office.

Jacquinot was born in Gondrecourt-le-Château

Gondrecourt-le-Château

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 (Meuse

Meuse

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) in 1898. Entering parliament in 1932, he later served for a short time as under-secretary of state for home affairs in Paul Reynaud's cabinet (1940). He served in the army World War II

World War II

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 and followed General de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

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 to London

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. He served as High Commissioner for the Navy in the provisional governments at Algiers

Algiers

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 and Paris

Paris

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, Minister of State for Muslim

Islam

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 Affairs (1945), Minister of Marine (Navy) (1947), Minister of Veterans and War Victims (1949), Minister of Overseas France

Minister of Overseas France

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 (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 Fifth Republic

French Fifth Republic

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. Later he again held the position of Minister for Overseas France (1961-66). He also chaired the General Council of the Meuse department in the Lorraine Province. A moderate right-wing politician during the Third

French Third Republic

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 and Fourth Republic

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s, during the de Gaulle era, he voted with Giscard d'Estaing's independent republicans and later as a member of the Gaullist Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic

Union des Démocrates pour la République

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. He left parliament in 1973. Jacquinot married the wife of former Finance Minister, Maurice Petsche. He died in Paris

Paris

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in
1993.