before the appointment of Gabriel Attal to Matignon, who were the youngest Prime Ministers?

The record for precocity has fallen. While Gabriel Attal succeeded Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday, November 9, as Prime Minister, the elected official from Hauts-de-Seine, aged 34 years and 9 months today, became the youngest head of government in the history of the Fifth Republic.

Gabriel Attal is in fact a few years younger than Laurent Fabius, aged 37 years and 10 months, when he entered Matignon in July 1984. An additional record of precocity for the former government spokesperson, who was already the youngest Minister of National Education. In 2018, he was also, at 29 years old, the youngest member of the government when he became Secretary of State responsible for Youth and the establishment of Universal National Service.

Jacques Chirac now completes the podium, with a nomination at the age of 41, in May 1974. Tannuity-two years therefore separate the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic and the oldest: Pierre Bérégovoy had taken up his post at the age of 66, in April 1992. They are, both of them, well far from the average age of the 26 heads of government who have succeeded one another since 1958, namely 54 years.