
Record-short tenures: France’s briefest-serving prime ministers
France recently witnessed another dramatic political shake-up: Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu tendered his resignation, setting a new record for the shortest tenure in the country's modern history. No one has ever exited the top office so swiftly. Still, French political history includes several examples of prime ministers who held the reins for just days or weeks. Let's take a look at the most short-lived premiers and find out why their time in office was so brief