Born in Bezier, errol Province, the son of a military doctor, he studied Russian at Paris Oriental School and then studied law. After graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Paris, joined the Radical Party, stayed in Paris during World War II, participated in the resistance movement, and joined the French National Liberation Committee established by General Charles de Gaulle in arles (1943- 1944), 65438+. 1970- 1977 served as the mayor of Pontali. 1949- 1950 as secretary of state for finance.
1952 served as prime minister for six weeks, 1955 served as minister of budget, minister of justice, minister of finance, and chairman of the foreign affairs Committee of the National Assembly. After the collapse of the Republic of China in four years, he was first rejected. Since 1962, he has been engaged in many important tasks abroad. From 1966, he served as Minister of Agriculture. 1968 After the student riots in May and June, he served as Minister of Education and reformed the enrollment system within one year. Charles de Gaulle resigned from 1969. From 65438 to 0972, Edgar Foley defined "lifelong education" in Learning to Live, and proposed that the future society is a "learning society". 1972- 1973 served as minister of state, 1973 as speaker of the national assembly, and served until 1978, during which he was elected president of the international human rights parliament, 1976 was accepted as an academician of the French Academy, 1978. He also published detective stories under the pseudonym of Edgar Sang. 1986 was elected president of the International Federation of Writers' Associations. He visited China three times, 1957, 1963, 1979, especially his second visit to China was 1962. Entrusted by President Charles de Gaulle, he discussed the establishment of diplomatic relations with Premier Zhou Enlai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, and China and France formally established diplomatic relations the following year.