Jack Lang (French politician)
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| Member of the French National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais' 6th constituency |
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Assumed office 19 June 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Dominique Dupilet |
| Education Minister of France | |
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In office 27 March 2000 – 5 May 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Claude Allègre |
| Succeeded by | Luc Ferry |
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In office 3 April 1992 – 29 March 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Lionel Jospin |
| Succeeded by | François Bayrou |
| Culture Minister of France | |
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In office 13 May 1988 – 2 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | François Léotard |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Toubon |
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In office 22 May 1981 – 19 March 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Michel d'Ornano |
| Succeeded by | François Léotard |
| Member of the French National Assembly for Loir-et-Cher |
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In office 16 March 1986 – 28 July 1988 |
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In office 1 June 1997 – 27 April 2000 |
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| Mayor of Blois | |
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In office 20 March 1989 – 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Sudreau |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Valette |
| Personal details | |
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Jack Mathieu Émile Lang 2 September 1939 Mirecourt, Vosges, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Socialist |
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (French pronunciation: [dʒakˈlɑ̃ɡ]; born 2 September 1939) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as France's Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and 1988 to 1992, and as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and 2000 to 2002. He was also the Mayor of Blois from 1989 to 2000. He served until 2012 in the National Assembly from the sixth district of Pas-de-Calais.
Jack Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. His father's family were a secular, assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family based in Nancy. Roger Lang was the commercial manager of the family business which was founded by Jack's grandfather Albert. Roger and Albert were both freemasons. Jack's mother, Marie-Luce Bouchet, a Catholic, was born in 1919 as the daughter of Emile Bouchet, who died in 1926, and Berthe Boulanger, a nurse who was also a freemason.
In 1938 Albert and Roger sent their wives to Vichy because of the threat of war with Germany. After the German invasion, Albert Lang and his wife moved to Brive la Gaillarde in Corrèze. The very young Jack and his mother went to stay with his great grandmother (the mother of Berthe Boulanger) in Cholet and subsequently moved to Bordeaux. His father Roger was first mobilized in Luneville, and then joined his parents and his brother-in-law Luc Bouchet in Brive. Jack and his mother also joined them in Brive after the bombing of Bordeaux. Jack Lang's father was sentenced by the court in Brive for failure to report his children as Jews, but was later acquitted by the Court of Appeal on the ground that the children's mother was a Catholic. Roger Lang was nevertheless placed under house arrest. Berthe Bouchet (Boulanger) visited the Langs in April 1942 when her daughter was about to give birth to her third child, Marianne. In 1943 Berthe was arrested in Nancy by the Gestapo for acts of propaganda and resistance. She was deported to Ravensbrück and died in the spring of 1945.
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