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Chaban-Delmas

Jacques Chaban-Delmas
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Prime Minister of France
In office
20 June 1969 – 6 July 1972
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
Preceded by Louis Mermaz
Succeeded by Laurent Fabius
In office
3 April 1978 – 2 July 1981
Preceded by Edgar Faure
Succeeded by Louis Mermaz
In office
9 December 1959 – 24 June 1969
Preceded by André Le Troquer
Succeeded by Achille Peretti
Mayor of Bordeaux
In office
19 October 1947 – 19 June 1995
Preceded by Jean-Fernand Audeguil
Succeeded by Alain Juppé
Personal details
Born Jacques Michel Pierre Delmas
(1915-03-07)7 March 1915
Paris, France
Died 10 November 2000(2000-11-10) (aged 85)
Paris, France
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.


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