Louis Jacquinot

Louis Jacquinot (16 September, 1898, Gondrecourt-le-Château (Meuse) - 14 June, 1993, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, chief of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's office.

He was a member of Parliament from 1932 to 1973. He was a short time under-secretary of state for home affairs in Paul Reynaud's cabinet (1940), he took part as a solider in WW2. He followed General de Gaulle in London. He was high commissioner for the Navy in the provisional governments of Algiers and Paris. Minister of State in charge of muslim affairs (1945), Minister of the Navy (1947), Minister for the Ex-servicemen (1949), Minister in charge of French Overseas departments and territories (1951) and again in 1953-1954. After de Gaulle's return to power (1958), he was Minister of State in charge of scientific research and afterwards of the Sahara (1958-62) and the French overseas departments and territories (until 1966). He has also chaired the General Council of the Meuse department in the Lorraine Province. A right wing moderate politician during the Third and Fourth Republics, he finished his political careeer as a member of the Giscard d'Estaing's independant republicans (1962) and of the Gaullist Union for the Fifth Republic (1968). He married the wife of a deceased Finance Minister, Maurice Petsche.