Brice Lalonde
| Brice Lalonde | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Minister of the Environment | |
|
In office 16 May 1991 – 2 April 1992 |
|
| Prime Minister | Édith Cresson |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Segolene Royal |
| Minister of the Environment to the Prime Minister (France) | |
|
In office 2 October 1990 – 16 May 1991 |
|
| Prime Minister | Michel Rocard |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Minister of the Environment to the Prime Minister (France) | |
|
In office 29 March 1989 – 2 October 1990 |
|
| Prime Minister | Michel Rocard |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Minister of the Environment to the Prime Minister (France) | |
|
In office 12 May 1988 – 29 March 1989 |
|
| Prime Minister | Michel Rocard |
| Preceded by | Alain Carignon |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 February 1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Relations |
Rosemary Isabel Forbes (aunt) John Forbes Kerry (cousin) Cameron Forbes Kerry (cousin) |
| Parents | Alain Lalonde Fiona Forbes |
Brice Lalonde (born 10 February 1946) is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the green party Ecology Generation.
Lalonde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of Alain Lalonde and Fiona Forbes. His maternal grandparents were Americans James Grant Forbes II of the Forbes family and Margaret Tyndal Winthrop of the Dudley–Winthrop family. Through Fiona's sister Rosemary, he is a first cousin of politicians John Kerry and Cameron Kerry. Lalonde's paternal grandfather changed his surname from Lévy to Lalonde, and converted from Judaism to Catholicism. James Grant Forbes II was a poppy botanist and opium dealer in the China trade during the Opium War, who wrote a book on Chinese plants.
Lalonde was a student leader during the May 1968 student uprisings in France, when riots and upheaval scared the French population away from Revolution and the old Left, but toward an adaptive and calmer socialism.
In 1968, Lalonde was President of the Union nationale des étudiants de france (UNEF), the French National Students' Union, which brought France to a standstill with protests and riots. Lalonde, with David McTaggart, an activist involved in the Greenpeace protests against French nuclear tests at Mururoa, helped create the confrontational strategies of boarding ships at sea in the 1970s. In July 1973, he was arrested by the French Navy during protests against nuclear tests in Mururoa, along with the General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, the priest Jean Toulat and the writer Jean-Marie Muller.
...
Wikipedia