LC control no. | nr 92026810 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Foccart, Jacques, 1913-1997 |
Associated country | France |
Birth date | 19130831 |
Death date | 19970319 |
Field of activity | Government and politics Civil service |
Affiliation | Service d'action civique (France) |
Profession or occupation | Government executives Civil servants |
Found in | Péan, P. L'homme de l'ombre, c1990: t.p. (Jacques Foccart) WW in Fr. 1991/92 (Foccart, Jacques, former sécrétaire général for African and Madagascar affairs; b. 8-31-1913) Le syndrome Foccart, 2012 Wikipedia, Sept. 10, 2013 (Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 -19 March 1997) was a chief adviser for the government of France on African policy as well as the co-founder of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC) in 1959; from 1960 to 1974, he was the President of France's chief of staff for African and Madagascar matters for both Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou; Foccart played such an important role in French policies in Africa, that after de Gaulle, he was seen as the most influential man of the Fifth Republic; but through SAC, he was considered to be the instigator behind various coups d'état in Africa during the 1960s) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Foccart> |
Associated language | fre |