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{{Short description|French statesman, judge, and politician}}
{{ infobox officeholder
| name          = Louis Joxe
| image = File:Louis Joxe.jpeg
| office              = Member of the [[Constitutional Council (France)|Constitutional Council]]
| term_start          = 4 November 1977
| term_end      = 28 February 1989
| appointer           = [[Edgar Faure]]<br>[[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]]
| president           = [[Roger Frey]]<br>[[Daniel Mayer]]<br>[[Robert Badinter]]
| predecessor         = Henri Rey
| successor           = [[Jacques Robert (jurist)|Jacques Robert]]
| office1        = [[Minister of Justice (France)|Minister of Justice]]
| term_start1    = 7 April 1967
| term_end1      = 31 May 1968
| president1     = [[Charles de Gaulle]]
| primeminister1 = [[Georges Pompidou]]
| predecessor1   = [[Jean Foyer]]
| successor1     = [[René Capitant]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1901|09|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Bourg-la-Reine]], [[France]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1991|04|06|1901|09|16|df=yes}}
| death_place   = [[Paris]], France
| nationality   = [[France|French]]
| children      = Alain Joxe<br>[[Pierre Joxe]]
| party         = [[Union of Democrats for the Republic|UDR]]
}}

'''Louis Joxe''' (16 September 1901 – 6 April 1991) was a French statesman, judge, and politician. He was born in [[Bourg-la-Reine]], [[Hauts-de-Seine]].

==Career==
Joxe, along with [[René Capitant]], the resistance organization Combat-Algérie, the only branch of [[Combat (French Resistance)|Combat]] outside of metropolitan France.{{Sf|Adams|2006|pp=247-248}}
* [[List of ambassadors of France to Russia|Ambassador of France to the USSR (1952–1955)]]
* Ambassador of France to the Federal Republic of Germany (-July 1956)
* Secretary General
* [[Ministry of National Education (France)|Minister of National Education]] (from 15 January 1960 to 23 November 1960 and from 15 October 1962 to 28 November 1962){{Sf|Adams|2006|pp=247-248}}
* [[Minister of Algerian Affairs]] (1960–1962) - signed the [[Évian Accords]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=DIPLOMAT LOUIS JOXE DIES |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/04/07/diplomat-louis-joxe-dies/34111578-869d-42a3-b9a9-e65536471b79/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
* Minister of Administrative Reforms (1962–1967)<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last1=Saxon |first1=Wolfgang |date=1991-04-07 |title=Louis Joxe, Gaullist, Dies at 89; Negotiated Algeria's Sovereignty |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/07/obituaries/louis-joxe-gaullist-dies-at-89-negotiated-algeria-s-sovereignty.html |access-date=2023-01-17 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[Minister of Justice (France)|Minister of Justice]] (6 April 1967 to 30 May 1968)<ref name=":1" />
* Deputy of [[Rhône (département)|Rhône]] (1967–1977)
* Judge of the [[Constitutional Council (France)|Constitutional Council of France]]

==Personal life==
He was married to Françoise-Hélène Halévy and was the father of the politician [[Pierre Joxe]].{{Sfn|Adams|2006|p=377}} Louis Joxe died in 1991, aged 89, in Paris.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===

* {{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Geoffrey |title=Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle's Free France, 1940-1945 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780773576667}}
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[[Category:Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
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