Var is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is bordered on the east by the Alpes-Maritimes department;to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône;to the north of the river Verdon by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department;and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 1,076,711 in 2019.
Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north,Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and largest city is Marseille;other important cities include Aix-en-Provence,Arles,Martigues and Aubagne.
Alpes-Maritimes is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner,on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region,it encompasses the French Riviera alongside neighbouring Var. Alpes-Maritimes had a population of 1,094,283 in 2019. Its prefecture is Nice,with Grasse as the sole subprefecture.
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 –the longest serving since Étienne François,duc de Choiseul under Louis XV –and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion,he was considered one of the historical Gaullists,and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce in August 2007. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999;his seat was taken over by Simone Veil.
The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic,the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés,meaning "delegate" or "envoy" in English;etymologically,it is a cognate of the English word deputy,the standard term for legislators in many parliamentary systems.
Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister he played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in 1963,he laid the foundation for the Paris-Bonn axis that was central in building a united Europe.
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962. In terms of political personality,Debréwas intense and immovable and had a tendency to rhetorical extremism.
Saint-Tropez is a commune in the Var department and the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,Southern France. It is 68 kilometres west of Nice and 100 kilometres east of Marseille,on the French Riviera,of which it is one of the best-known towns. In 2018,Saint-Tropez had a population of 4,103. The adjacent narrow body of water is the Gulf of Saint-Tropez,stretching to Sainte-Maxime to the north under the Massif des Maures.
Draguignan is a commune in the Var department in the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,southeastern France.
Jean-Louis Debré is a former French judge and politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016. He was Minister of the Interior from 1995 until 1997 during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. Since 2016 he has been President of the Superior Council of Archives.
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie,known in France as MAM,is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans,part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s,she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007),the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010),and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
Sainte-Maxime is a commune in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera,90 km (56 mi) west from Nice and 130 km (81 mi) east from Marseille,it had a population of 13,968 in 2017. Its inhabitants are called Maximois or Maximoises in French.
Bernard Deflesselles is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 9th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône since 1999. A member of The Republicans (LR),his constituency is located in the department's southeastern corner;it follows the Mediterranean coast until the border with Var,comprising Cassis and La Ciotat.
Franck Alix Georges Riester is a French politician who most recently served as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
François Cornut-Gentille is a French politician who represented the 2nd constituency of the Haute-Marne department in the National Assembly from 1993 to 2022. A member of The Republicans (LR),he was appointed the defence adviser to Prime Minister Michel Barnier in 2024.
Joël Giraud is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities under Prime Minister Jean Castex in 2022. A member of both Renaissance (RE) and the Radical Movement (MR),he previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2020 and served as Secretary of State for Rurality from 2020 until 2022.
Michel Herbillon is a French politician who has represented the 8th constituency of the Val-de-Marne department in the National Assembly since 1997.
Michel Zunino,Knight of the Légion d'honneur,was a French wine grower and politician. Zunino was a Member of Parliament,representing Var from 1936 to 1942 and 1946 to 1956. Additionally,he represented Var in the first and second Constituent National Assemblies after the war. He was also active in the cooperative movement amongst wine growers.
Laurent Saint-Martin is a French politician who has served as Minister Delegate for the Budget and Public Accounts in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier since 21 September 2024. A member of Renaissance (RE),he has also held a seat in the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2021.
The 4th constituency of Var is a French legislative constituency in the Var department. Like the other 576 French constituencies,it elects one deputy using the two-round system,with a runoff if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.
