Jacques Chaban-Delmas | |
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Prime Minister of France | |
In office 20 June 1969 – 6 July 1972 |
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President | Georges Pompidou |
Preceded by | Maurice Couve de Murville |
Succeeded by | Pierre Messmer |
President of the National Assembly | |
In office 2 April 1986 – 23 June 1988 |
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Preceded by | Louis Mermaz |
Succeeded by | Laurent Fabius |
In office 3 April 1978 – 2 July 1981 |
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Preceded by | Edgar Faure |
Succeeded by | Louis Mermaz |
In office 9 December 1959 – 24 June 1969 |
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Preceded by | André Le Troquer |
Succeeded by | Achille Peretti |
Mayor of Bordeaux | |
In office 19 October 1947 – 19 June 1995 |
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Preceded by | Jean-Fernand Audeguil |
Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
Personal details | |
Born |
Jacques Michel Pierre Delmas 7 March 1915 Paris, France |
Died | 10 November 2000 Paris, France |
(aged 85)
Political party |
Radical Party (1940-1947) Rally of the French People (1947-1955) National Centre of Social Republicans (1955-1958) Union for the New Republic (1958-1968) Union of Democrats for the Republic (1968-1976) Rally for the Republic (1976-1995) |
Occupation | Civil Servant |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃabɑ̃ dɛlmas]; 7 March 1915 – 10 November 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département.
Jacques Chaban-Delmas was born Jacques Michel Pierre Delmas in Paris. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, before attending the École Libre des Sciences Politiques ("Sciences Po"). In the resistance underground, his final nom de guerre was Chaban; after World War II, he formally changed his name to Chaban-Delmas. As a general of brigade in the resistance, he took part in the Parisian insurrection of August 1944, with general de Gaulle. He was the youngest French general since François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, during the First French Empire.
A member of the Radical Party, he finally joined the Gaullist Rally of the French People (RPF), which opposed the Fourth Republic's governments. In 1947, he became mayor of Bordeaux, which was for 48 years his electoral fief. As a member of the National Assembly, he sat with the RPF.