Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover,which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France,890,and is the 8th most populous. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
Gironde is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary,a major waterway,its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2016,it had a population of 1,566,679. The famous Bordeaux wine region is in Gironde. It has six arrondissements,making it one of the departments with the most arrondissements.
Émile Basly is one of the great figures of trade unionism in mining in the mineral field of Nord-Pas-de-Calais,France,along with Arthur Lamendin. He is primarily known for his participation in the strike of 1884,when he became known as "the untameable miner" and "the tsar of Lens". He was the inspiration for the character Etienne Lantier in Émile Zola's novel Germinal.
Wavrans-sur-l’Aa is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Alain Bocquet is a French politician.
Frédéric Cuvillier is a French politician who,until his appointment as Junior Minister for Transport and the Maritime Economy at the Ministry of Ecology,Sustainable Development,and Energy by President François Hollande on 16 May 2012,was a member of the National Assembly of France,where he represented the 5th constituency of Pas-de-Calais on behalf of the Parti Socialiste. He was mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer from 22 November 2002 until 2012,when he became Secretary of State for Transport and the Maritime Economy.
Marc-Philippe Daubresse was the French Minister for Youth and Active Solidarities.
Michel Delebarre is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Nord department,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche. He is also mayor of Dunkirk.
Philippe Kemel is a French politician who is the Mayor of Carvin and a former member of the National Assembly of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Henri Guidet was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 12 March 1967 to 30 May 1968,representing Pas-de-Calais.
Paul Dussaussoy was a French lawyer and politician. Born in Dunkirk,Nord,he was a deputy to the national assembly from 1893 to 1902 and again from 1906 until his premature death in 1909. He introduced the first French bill that proposed to give votes to women,at first limited to local elections.
Charles-Alphonse Levert was a French public servant and politician. During the Second French Empire he was a prefect of various departments. During the French Third Republic he served as deputy for Pas-de-Calais between 1872 and 1889. He held right-wing Bonapartist views and consistently voted against the republican governments.
Marcel Cabiddu was a French politician.
Women are able to be Members of Parliament in France;in the National Assembly.
Ludovic Loquet is a French politician who was the Member of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais's 6th constituency for a month in 2020.
Christophe Leclercq is a French politician. He has been Member of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais's 6th constituency since his election in a by-election in 2021 to replace Brigitte Bourguignon.
Jean-Pierre Defontaine was a French politician. A member of the Radical Party of the Left,he served Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency from 1978 to 2007. An avid football fan as well,he served as President of the club RC Lens from 1976 to 1979. In 2015,a multipurpose venue was named after him in Hénin-sur-Cojeul. Defontaine died on 1 January 2022,at the age of 82.
Emmanuel Blairy,born 14 March 1986 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais),is a French politician and a local civil servant of the Communautéd'agglomération de Lens –Liévin since 2006.
