What is Pierre Messmer?
{{Infobox officeholder |name=Pierre Messmer |image=Pierre Messmer01 (cropped 2).JPG |order = [[Prime Minister of France]] |term_start =6 July 1972 |term_end =27 May 1974 |president =[[Georges Pompidou]] |predecessor =[[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]] |successor =[[Jacques Chirac]] |birth_name=Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer |birth_date =20 March 1916 |birth_place =[[Vincennes]], [[Seine (department)|Seine]] (now [[Val-de-Marne]]), [[French Third Republic|France]] |death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|2007|8|29|1916|3|20}} |death_place =[[Paris]], [[France]] |party =[[Union of Democrats for the Republic|UDR]] |occupation =Civil Servant |caption=Pierre Messmer in 1988}} '''Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer''' ({{IPA-fr|pjɛʁ mɛsmɛʁ}}; 20 March 1916{{spaced ndash}}29 August 2007) was a French [[Gaullism|Gaullist]] politician. He was [[Minister of Defence (France)|Minister of Armies]] under [[Charles de Gaulle]] from 1960 to 1969 and then as [[French Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] under [[Georges Pompidou]] from 1972 to 1974.<ref name=Monde>Thomas Ferenczi, [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-949062,0.html?xtor=RSS-3208 Le gaulliste Pierre Messmer est mort] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908185613/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-949062,0.html?xtor=RSS-3208 |date=2007-09-08 }}, ''[[Le Monde]]'', 29 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Messmer, Pierre}} [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:Prime Ministers of France]] [[Category:Politicians from Île-de-France]] [[Category:People from Val-de-Marne]] {{bio-stub}}