Var is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It takes its name from the river Var,which flowed along its eastern boundary,until the boundary was moved in 1860 and the department is no longer associated with the river. The Var department is bordered on the east by the department of Alpes-Maritimes,to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône,to the north of the river Verdon by the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea.
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France between June and December 1848,during the French Second Republic.
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.
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.
The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG was a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France,the Socialist Party. After the 2017 presidential and legislative elections,negotiations to merge the PRG with the Radical Party began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the Radical Movement was held on 9 and 10 December 2017. However,a faction of ex-PRG members,including its last president Sylvia Pinel,split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with La République En Marche in the European elections and resurrected the PRG.
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,he was intense and immovable,with 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.
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 Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne since 2020. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
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 La République En Marche! (LREM) 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.
Éric Ciotti is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes in the National Assembly since 2007. A member of The Republicans (LR),he sought the party's nomination for the 2022 presidential election at its 2021 congress;he placed first in the first round of voting but was defeated by Valérie Pécresse in the second round. Ciotti previously briefly served as First Deputy Mayor of Nice under Mayor Christian Estrosi in 2008,before he assumed the presidency of the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2008 to 2017.
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.
Christophe Castaner is a French politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 16 October 2018 to 6 July 2020. He served as the Executive Officer of La République En Marche! and Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament from 2017 to 2018. He served as Spokesperson of the Government under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2017. He was also spokesperson for Emmanuel Macron during his campaign for the presidential election of 2017.
François-Michel Lambert is a French politician who has represented the 10th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the National Assembly since 2012. A former member of Europe Ecology –The Greens (EELV),which he left in 2015 to join Jean-Luc Bennahmias's Democratic Front (FD),he has been a member of Liberty Ecology Fraternity (LEF) since 2020.
Laurent Saint-Martin is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017,representing the department of Val-de-Marne.
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.
