Robert Buron (27 February 1910 – 28 April 1973) was a French politician. Buron represented Mayenne as a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1958 and was a minister in several French governments during France’s Fourth and early Fifth Republics, including a Minister of Finance from 20 January 1955 to 23 February 1955 and a Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism from 9 June 1958 to 16 May 1962 under Charles de Gaulle.
Biography
Buron was born in 1910 in Paris. He married Marie-Louise 'Melle' Trouillard (1910-2006) in July 1938, with whom he had a daughter, Martine Buron (1944-). Martine Buron was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 until 1994, representing the Parti Socialiste.
Buron was kidnapped during the 1961 Algiers putsch. In 1965 he founded Objectif 72, a political movement.
In the last years of his life, Buron served as the mayor of Laval.
He died in 1973 in Paris. In his honor, the Lycée Robert Buron in Laval was named after him.
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Bibliography
Marcel Launay, Robert Buron, témoignages de Pierre Pflimlin et Jean Offredo, Paris: Beauchesne, 1993, 208 p. (Politiques & chrétiens). Michel Gaignard, "Robert Buron s'implante en Mayenne", L'Oribus, num. 65, March 2006.
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Atonie politique et "buronisme" en Mayenne
1910 births
1973 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Popular Democratic Party (France) politicians
Popular Republican Movement politicians
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Ministers of Information of France
Transport ministers of France
French Ministers of Overseas France
French Ministers of Finance
Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French people of the Algerian War Mayors of places in Pays de la Loire