Georges Gorse was a French politician and diplomat.

Born in Cahors

Cahors

Cahors is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.Its site is dramatic being contained on three sides within an udder shaped twist in the river Lot known as a 'presqu'île' or peninsula...

, he qualified in 1939 as a professor at the University of Cairo. During World War II he joined Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

 and the Free French as Director of Information, served on the Provisional Consultative Assembly.
After the war he was elected to represent the Vendée

Vendée

The Vendée is a department in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west central France, on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river which runs through the south-eastern part of the department.-History:...

 in the French National Assembly

French National Assembly

The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....

 from 1946–1951, and then the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière

Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière

The French Section of the Workers' International , founded in 1905, was a French socialist political party, designed as the local section of the Second International...

 (SFIO) from 1951 onwards. In 1957, Guy Mollet

Guy Mollet

Guy Mollet was a French Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister in 1956–1957.-Early life and World War II:...

 made him an Ambassador to Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, then he was elected as Gaullist representative which he held from 1967–97.

During the events of May 1968, having attended a private political meeting as Minister of Information, he broke the news to the French media of de Gaulle's now notorious statement "reform yes, but 'chienlit

Chienlit

Chienlit is a traditional French term typically translated as masquerade or carnival/chaos. It was brought to notoriety by General Charles de Gaulle in an angry speech during the student protests in Paris during May 1968 in France, when he used the vernacular term as a scatological pun "La...

, no".

Gorse held a wide range of positions of state:

• Under-secretary of State for Muslim Affairs 1946 to 1947
• Under-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1949 to 1950
• Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1961 to 1962
• Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1962
• Minister for Co-operation, 1962
• Ambassador to Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  , 1963 to 1967
• Minister of Labour, 1973 to 1974
• Mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt
  Boulogne-Billancourt
  Boulogne-Billancourt is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Boulogne-Billancourt is a sub-prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt....
  
  , 1971 to 1991