Louis Joxe Explained

Louis Joxe
Office:	Minister of Justice
Term Start:	1967
Term End:	1968
President:	Charles de Gaulle
Primeminister:	Georges Pompidou
Predecessor:	Jean Foyer
Successor:	René Capitant
Birth Date:	16 September 1901
Birth Place:	Bourg-la-Reine, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	French
Children:	Alain Joxe Pierre Joxe
Party:	UDR

Louis Joxe (16 September 1901 – 6 April 1991) was a French statesman, judge, and politician. He was born in Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine.

Career

Joxe, along with René Capitant, the resistance organization Combat-Algérie, the only branch of Combat outside of metropolitan France.

• Ambassador of France to the USSR (1952–1955)
• Ambassador of France to the Federal Republic of Germany (-July 1956)
• Secretary General
• Minister of National Education (from 15 January 1960 to 23 November 1960 and from 15 October 1962 to 28 November 1962)
• Minister of Algerian Affairs (1960–1962) - signed the Évian Accords^[1]
• Minister of Administrative Reforms (1962–1967)^[2]
• Minister of Justice (6 April 1967 to 30 May 1968)
• Deputy of Rhône (1967–1977)
• Judge of the Constitutional Council of France

Personal life

He was married to Françoise-Hélène Halévy and was the father of the politician Pierre Joxe. Louis Joxe died in 1991, aged 89, in Paris.

References

Bibliography

• Book: Adams, Geoffrey . Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1945 . McGill-Queen's University Press . 2006 . 9780773576667.

Notes and References

1. News: DIPLOMAT LOUIS JOXE DIES . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-01-17 . 0190-8286.
2. News: Saxon . Wolfgang . Times . Special To the New York . 1991-04-07 . Louis Joxe, Gaullist, Dies at 89; Negotiated Algeria's Sovereignty . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-01-17 . 0362-4331.