03/20/1916
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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De Gaulle, le dernier roi de France (2017) as Self (archive footage) |
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L’enfer de Matignon (2008) as Self |
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Escadrons De La Mort : L'École Française (2003) as Self |
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L'ami américain : l'Amérique contre De Gaulle (2002) as Self |
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Destins: Général De Bollardière (1975) as Self |