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Maurice Couve de Murville

Prime Minister of France from 1968 to 1969

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
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Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister he played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in 1963, he laid the foundation for the Paris-Bonn axis that was central in building a united Europe.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1968, 1969, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Maurice, Couve and Murville can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as prime Minister of France from 1968 to 1969. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maurice Couve de Murville” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.