Prince Laurent of Belgium is the second son and youngest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola,and younger brother of King Philippe. Currently,he is 14th in the Belgian line of succession. He had been as high as third in line,but the constitution was amended in 1991 to extend an equal right of succession to women,putting him behind his sister,Princess Astrid,and her descendants.
Pierre Vital Georges Bergé was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent (YSL),and was a longtime business partner—and onetime significant other—of its namesake designer.
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a commune of French Guiana,an overseas region and department of France located in South America. Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is one of the three sub-prefectures of French Guiana and the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. It is the second most populous city of French Guiana,with 50,250 inhabitants at the January 2021 census.
The arrondissement of Le Puy-en-Velay is an arrondissement of France in the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 102 communes. Its population is 96,495 (2021),and its area is 1,930.7 km2 (745.4 sq mi).
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2024. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Saint-Geneys-près-Saint-Paulien is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.
François-Noël Buffet is a French lawyer and politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as Minister delegate to Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou since 2024.
Didier Guillaume was a French politician who briefly served as minister of state of Monaco from 2024 until his death in 2025. He previously served as the minister of agriculture and food in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2018 to 2020. A member of the Socialist Party until 2018,he was President of the General Council of Drôme from 2004 to 2015,Senator for Drôme from 2008 to 2018 and president of the Socialist group in the Senate from 2014 to 2018.
François Patriat is a French politician of Renaissance who has been serving as president of the party's group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.
Étienne Blanc is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he also ran for Mayor of Lyon previously in 2020.
Laurent Guyot is a French professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Ligue 2 club Annecy.
The Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. The party was formed in 2015 as the refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of the then-president of France,Jacques Chirac.
Pascal Allizard is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2014,representing the Calvados department.
The canton of Saint-Paulien is an administrative division of the Haute-Loire department,south-central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Paulien.
Thomas Laurent is a French racing driver who currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for French team Signatech Alpine Matmut and in the European Le Mans Series with Graff Racing. He finished second in the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans and third in the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In France,although the formation of a shadow cabinet is neither compulsory nor common,several have been formed.
Paulien Couckuyt is a Belgian track and field athlete who specializes in middle-distance running and 400 metres hurdles.
Martine Berthet is a French politician of the Republicans (LR). She was the mayor of Albertville,Savoie between 2014 and 2017 and became a senator for Savoie in 2017.
Micheline Jacques is a French Barthélemois politician. She has served in the French Senate for Saint Barthélemy since 1 October 2020 as a member of The Republicans (LR). Jacques is the first woman to represent Saint Barthélemy in the national Senate since the seat's creation in 2008.
Communautéd'agglomération du Puy-en-Velay is the communautéd'agglomération,an intercommunal structure,centred on the town of Le Puy-en-Velay. It is located in the Haute-Loire department,in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region,south-central France. Created in 2017,its seat is in Le Puy-en-Velay. Its area is 1324.0 km2. Its population was 82,871 in 2019,of which 19,215 in Le Puy-en-Velay proper.
