Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly under the Fourth Republic for Jura in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers. A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.