Yvelines is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019,it had a population of 1,448,207. Its prefecture is Versailles,home to the Palace of Versailles,the principal residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789,a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Yvelines' subprefectures are Saint-Germain-en-Laye,Mantes-la-Jolie and Rambouillet.
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.
Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish general,minister of war and army chief,who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
Gaston Flosse is a French Polynesian politician who has been President of French Polynesia on five separate occasions. He is currently a member of the Senate of France and has been a French junior minister under Jacques Chirac. He received sentences for corruption,which are under appeal.
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.
Michel Poniatowski was a French politician,member of a legitimized line of Poland's princely Poniatowski family. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the Giscard d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He was a founder and honorary president of the Union for French Democracy.
HervéMorin is a French politician of the Centrists who has been serving as the first President of the Regional Council of Normandy since January 2016. Under President Nicolas Sarkozy,he was the Minister of Defence.
Indirect Senate elections were held for 114 of the 343 seats in the French Senate on 21 September 2008. With this election,the number of senators was increased from 331 to 343;Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin elected two senators each for the first time. Furthermore,this election was the last to be held under the old system:prior to this election,senators were elected in three classes for nine-year terms. Under the new system instituted in 2011,senators are elected for six-year terms in two classes.
HervéMaurey is a member of the Senate of France,representing the Eure department. He is a member of the New Centre (NC). He has been the mayor of Bernay,Eure between 2003 and 2016.
Axel Poniatowski was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017. He represented Val-d'Oise's 2nd constituency,as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
François Loncle is a French politician. He represented the 4th constituency of the Eure department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017 as a member of the Socialist Party.
Philippe Vigier is a French politician who served as Minister Delegate for the Overseas in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2023 to 2024.
Étienne Blanc is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he ran for Mayor of Lyon in 2020.
Jean-Pierre Nicolas is a French politician. He represented Eure's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2012,and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement
Noël Jacques Lefebvre-Duruflé was a French politician who became Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the French Second Republic,and under the Second French Empire was Minister of Public Works. In the French Third Republic he was convicted on a corruption charge.
This local electoral calendar for 2016 lists the subnational elections held in 2016. Referendums,retention elections,and national by-elections are also included.
Victor Édouard Milliard was a French politician who was Minister of Justice for a few months in 1897–98.
Guillaume Kasbarian is a French business consultant and politician of Renaissance who has served as Minister Delegate for Housing in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 8 February 2024.
Sébastien Lecornu is a French politician who has served as Minister of the Armed Forces in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne,Gabriel Attal and Michel Barnier since 2022.
Guillaume Vuilletet is a French politician who has served as Member of the National Assembly for Val-d'Oise's 2nd constituency since 2017. He is a member of La République En Marche! (LREM) and previously served on the Regional Council of Île-de-France.
