Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party,he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF),moderate socialists (UDSR),Christian democrats (MRP) and liberal-conservatives (CNIP). His main priority was ending the Indochina War,which had already cost 92,000 lives,with 114,000 wounded and 28,000 captured on the French side. Public opinion polls showed that,in February 1954,only 7% of the French people wanted to continue the fight to regain Indochina out of the hands of the Communists,led by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement. At the 1954 Geneva Conference,Mendès France negotiated a deal that gave the Viet Minh control of Vietnam north of the seventeenth parallel,and allowed him to pull out all French forces. He is considered one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Fourth Republic.
Serge Lepeltier is a French politician.
Christian Poncelet was a conservative French politician. A member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),he was President of the Senate from 1998 to 2008. In addition to being a Senator,he was Mayor of Remiremont (Vosges) and was also the President of the General Council of Vosges.
Pierre Moscovici is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was Minister of the Economy,Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology,Energy,Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Marmande is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département in south-western France.
The siege of Sancerre (1572–1573) was a siege of the fortified hilltop city of Sancerre in central France during the Wars of Religion where the Huguenot population held out for nearly eight months against the Catholic forces of the king.
Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.
Pierre Villon was a member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance during World War II. With his true name of Roger Salomon Ginsburger,he was an architect. In spring 1944,with Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont and Jean de Voguë,he was one of the three leaders of the Committee of Military action created by the Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR).
Jacques Bompard is a French politician who has presided over the League of the South (LS) since he co-founded in 2010. He served as Mayor of Orange from 1995 to 2021 and a member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse from 1986 to 1988,elected at-large,before returning from 2012 until 2017,when he represented its 4th constituency.
Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 March 2001. These elections were marked by a setback for the left and a victory for the right one year before the 2002 presidential election. However,the capital,Paris and the second largest city,Lyon both switched to the left.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
François Asensi is a French politician who has served as the Mayor of Tremblay-en-France since 1991 and served as Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis' 11th constituency from 1988 to 2017.
Guy Teissier is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department from 1993 until 2022,previously briefly holding the position in 1988. He has been a member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was established in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Teissier previously held the mayoralty of the 5th sector of Marseille from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 until 2014.
The Party of France is a political party in France. The PDF was founded on 23 February 2009 by National Front MEP Carl Lang. Carl Lang was known for his opposition to Marine Le Pen's possible candidacy to the leadership of the FN upon retirement of its long-time leader,Jean-Marie Le Pen. This came in the midst of the early campaign for the 2009 European elections:Carl Lang,elected for the FN in the North-West constituency ran for re-election under the PDF banner,against the FN list led by Marine Le Pen. The PDF supported Jean Verdon in the Massif Central-Centre and the incumbent MEP Jean-Claude Martinez in the South-West constituency. The party ran no lists against Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch.
Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Éric Bocquet is a French politician and member of the French Communist Party.
Josette Manin is a French politician on the island of Martinique. She was the last President of the General Council of Martinique,from 31 March 2011 to 31 December 2015,and was the representative of Martinique's 1st constituency in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. She was the first woman to be elected President of the General Council and as a deputy for Martinique in the French National Assembly.
Maria Rabaté was a French politician,writer,and school teacher. She was a member of the French Communist Party,a trade unionist,and elected representative of the 1st district of Seine in the French Parliament,from 1946 to 1960. She was also appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor for the Resistance.
Xavier Albertini is a French politician from Horizons who has been Member of Parliament for Marne's 1st constituency in the National Assembly since 2022.
