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Bernard Cornut-Gentille

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Bernard Cornut-Gentille
Minister of Posts
In office
1959–1960
PresidentCharles de Gaulle
Prime MinisterMichel Debré
Preceded byEugène Thomas
Succeeded byMichel Maurice-Bokanowski
Subprefect of Riems
In office
1943-1945
High Commissioner in French Equatorial Africa
In office
1948-1951
High Commissioner in French West Africa
In office
1951-1956
French permanent representative to the United Nations Security Council
In office
1956-1957
French ambassador to Argentina
In office
1957
Minister Without Portfolio
In office
June 1, 1958-June 3, 1958
Minister of Overseas France
In office
June 3, 1958-January, 1959
Member of the French National Assembly, Gaullist Party
In office
1958-1968
Mayor of Cannes
In office
1959-1978
Member of the French National Assembly, non-inscrit
In office
1973-1978
Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine
In office
1945-1948
Personal details
Born(1909-07-26)26 July 1909
Brest, France
Died21 January 1992(1992-01-21) (aged 82)
Paris, France
Political partyUnion for the New Republic
Alma materÉcole Libre des Sciences Politiques

Bernard Cornut-Gentille (26 July 1909[1] – 21 January 1992[2]) was a French administrator and politician.

Born in Brest, Finistère,[1] Cornut-Gentille studied at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. In 1943 he was appointed as the Subprefect of Reims, but resigned to assist the Free French delegate Émile Bollaert.[3][4] Following the Liberation of France he served as Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine,[5] of the Somme,[6] and of the Bas-Rhin.[7] In 1948 he was appointed High Commissioner in French Equatorial Africa then, from 1951 to 1956, High Commissioner in French West Africa.[8][9]

After this, he served as France's permanent representative to the United Nations Security Council,[2] and in 1957 as ambassador to Argentina.[10]

Standing for the Gaullist Party, the UNR, he was elected to represent Alpes-Maritimes in the 1958 election to the National Assembly of France. He had been minister without portfolio in June 1958, then Minister of Overseas France from 3 June 1958 to 8 January 1959 in the governments of Charles de Gaulle. Under Michel Debré he served as Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones from 8 January 1959 to 5 February 1960. He resigned ministerial office at the same time as Jacques Soustelle, over the handling of the affair of the barricades in Algiers and broke with the Gaullists.

He sat in the National Assembly as an independent (French: non-inscrit) until 1968 and again from 1973 to 1978. Locally, he served as mayor of Cannes from 1959 to 1978. Here he initiated a programme of redevelopment and renovation.

His nephew François Cornut-Gentille has served as representative of the Haute-Marne department since 1993 and mayor of Saint-Dizier since 1995.

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  • (in French) Biography at the website of the Assemblée nationale

References

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  1. ^ a b Chroniques d'outre-mer: études et informations (in French). Documentation francaise, Éditions de la Présidence du Conseil. 1958. p. 3. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b "La mort de Bernard Cornut-Gentille Un esprit indépendant". Le Monde (in French). 25 January 1992. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  3. ^ Graux, Henry (1994). Mémoires d'Henry Graux, préfet du Calvados de 1940 à 1942 (in French). Conseil général du Calvados, Direction des Archives départementales. p. 110. ISBN 978-2-86014-015-7. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  4. ^ Coston, Henry (1963). L'assemblee introuvable: le trombinoscope de la Veme bis (in French). Imprimerie réunies. p. 70. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  5. ^ Who's who in France, Paris (in French). J. Lafitte. 1988. p. 1274. ISBN 978-2-85784-023-7. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  6. ^ Récueil des textes authentiques des programmes et engagements électoraux des députés proclamés élus à la suite des élections générales (in French). l'Assemblée nationale. 1958. p. 74. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  7. ^ Wittmann, Bernard (1999). Une histoire de l'Alsace, autrement: (Chap. XIV à XVI): 1940 à nos jours (in French). Ed. Rhyn un Mosel. p. 116. ISBN 978-2-9514359-0-2. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  8. ^ Steinberg, S. (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1956. Springer. p. 999. ISBN 978-0-230-27085-5. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  9. ^ Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial Governors. The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 32. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  10. ^ Recueil général des traités de la France (in French). Documentation française. 1976. pp. 673–674. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
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