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.