[1] After Marshal Petain's request for an armistice with Nazi Germany on 17 June 1940, Fouchet boarded a London-bound British airplane to offer his services to General Charles de Gaulle and the Free French forces.

His missions primarily involved liaison work between the Free French in London and the resistance movement in France.

[1] Fouchet received his first diplomatic assignment in 1944, when he was made a secretary of the French embassy in Moscow.

[1] In 1954 Fouchet began a two-year term as Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs in the government of Pierre Mendès France.

He was the French Minister of National Education from 28 November 1962 to 6 April 1967.