Editing Pierre Messmer (section)

{{short description|83rd Prime Minister of France}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Pierre Messmer
|image=Pierre Messmer01 (cropped 2).JPG
|order         = [[Prime Minister of France]]
|term_start    =5 July 1972
|term_end      =27 May 1974
|president     =[[Georges Pompidou]]<br>[[Alain Poher]] {{Small|(Acting)}}
|predecessor   =[[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]]
|successor     =[[Jacques Chirac]]
|office2 = [[Minister of the Armed Forces (France)|Minister of the Armed Forces]]
|term_start2 = 5 February 1960
|term_end2 = 22 June 1969
|primeminister2 = [[Michel Debré]] <br> [[Georges Pompidou]] <br> [[Maurice Couve de Murville]]
|predecessor2 = [[Pierre Guillaumat]]
|successor2 = Michel Debré 
|birth_name=Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer
|birth_date    = {{birth date|1916|03|20|df=y}}
|birth_place   =[[Vincennes]], [[Seine (department)|Seine]] (now [[Val-de-Marne]]), 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=Messmer in 1988}}
{{Conservatism in France|Politicians}}

'''Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer''' ({{IPA|fr|pjɛʁ mɛsmɛʁ|lang}}; 20 March 1916{{spaced ndash}}29 August 2007) was a French [[Gaullism|Gaullist]] politician. He served as [[Minister of Defence (France)|Minister of Armies]] under [[Charles de Gaulle]] from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since [[Étienne François, duc de Choiseul]] under [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] – and then as [[French Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] under [[Georges Pompidou]] from 1972 to 1974. A member of the [[French Foreign Legion]], he was considered one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the [[military hospital]] of the [[Val-de-Grâce]] in August 2007. He was elected a member of the ''[[Académie française]]'' in 1999; his seat was taken over by [[Simone Veil]].<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=8 September 2007 }}, ''[[Le Monde]]'', 29 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>