Félix Gaillard d'Aimé (French: [feliks ɡajaʁ]; 5 November 1919 – 10 July 1970) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon.^[1]

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Félix Gaillard
Prime Minister of France
In office 6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958
President	René Coty
Preceded by	Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Succeeded by	Pierre Pflimlin
Personal details
Born	(1919-11-05)5 November 1919 Paris, France
Died	10 July 1970(1970-07-10) (aged 50) near Jersey
Political party	Radical

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A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined the Resistance and served on its Finance committee. As a member of the Radical Party, he was elected deputy of Charente département in 1946. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.

He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for the French Fourth Republic; his term of office lasted only a few months. Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by the French National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village.

President of the Radical Party from 1958 to 1961, he advocated an alliance of the center-left and the center-right parties. He represented a generation of young politicians whose careers were blighted by the advent of the Fifth Republic.

Gaillard was last seen alive on 9 July 1970, when he and three passengers boarded his yacht, the Marie Grillon and departed the island of Jersey to return to the French mainland after a brief stay. The next day, bits of the wreckage of the yacht were found at the Minquiers reefs, along with the bodies of the two passengers.^[2] Gaillard's body was found, along with that of another passenger, floating in the English Channel on 12 July.^[3]

• Félix Gaillard – President of the Council
• Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Jacques Chaban-Delmas – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of the Interior
• Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning
• Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
• Robert Lecourt – Minister of Justice
• René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
• Antoine Quinson – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Roland Boscary-Monsservin – Minister of Agriculture
• Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
• Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of Public Health and Population
• Pierre Garet – Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
• Max Lejeune – Minister for the Sahara