---
category: "Political Figure"
tags:
  - Person
  - Nuclear
  - Israel
summary: "Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957."
born: 1914-08-19
died: 1993-02-10
location: "Luisant, Eure-et-Loir, France"
---

Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of [[France]] in 1957. His government replaced [[Guy Mollet]]'s, and it was during his administration that the formal authorization for the [[Dimona]] reactor was signed by [[Christian Pineau]], then Foreign Minister, just as the government was being voted out of office.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 3.