Jean-Marc Ayrault
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development | |
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Assumed office 11 February 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Preceded by | Laurent Fabius |
| Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 1 April 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Preceded by | François Fillon |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Valls |
| Leader of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left | |
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In office 12 June 1997 – 19 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Laurent Fabius |
| Succeeded by | Bruno Le Roux |
| Mayor of Nantes | |
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In office 20 March 1989 – 21 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Michel Chauty |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Rimbert |
| Mayor of Saint-Herblain | |
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In office 14 March 1977 – 20 March 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Michel Chauty |
| Succeeded by | Charles Gautier |
| Member of the National Assembly for Loire-Atlantique's 3rd constituency |
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In office 23 June 1988 – 20 July 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Fougerat |
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In office 14 March 1977 – 20 March 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Fougerat |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Fougerat |
| Personal details | |
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25 January 1950 Maulévrier, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Brigitte Terrien (m. 1971) |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Alma mater | University of Nantes |
Jean-Marc Ayrault (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁk eʁo]; born 25 January 1950) is a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 16 May 2012 to 31 March 2014. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2016. Previously Ayrault was the Mayor of Nantes from 1989 to 2012, and he led the Socialist Party group in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2012.
Born in Maulévrier in Maine-et-Loire, Jean-Marc Ayrault is the son of Joseph Ayrault, from Maulévrier, formerly an agricultural worker who was subsequently employed in a textile factory, and of Georgette Uzenot, a former seamstress who later became a full-time housewife.
His early schooling was at the St Joseph Catholic primary school in Maulévrier, after which, between 1961 and 1968, he attended the Lycée Colbert, in Cholet. He subsequently studied German at Nantes University. In 1969/70 he spent a term at the University of Würzburg in Bavaria. He graduated with a degree in German in 1971 and in 1972 obtained his . He stayed in the Nantes area for his probationary teaching year which was undertaken in Rezé. Between 1973 and his election to the National Assembly in 1986 he worked as a German language teacher in nearby Saint-Herblain.
During his youth, Ayrault was a member of a movement of young Christians in rural areas. He joined the Socialist Party (PS) after the 1971 Epinay Congress during which François Mitterrand took the party leadership. Ayrault was affiliated to Jean Poperen's faction, one of the left-wing groups in the party. Elected in 1976 to the General Council of Loire-Atlantique département, he subsequently became Mayor of Saint-Herblain, located in the western suburbs of Nantes, in 1977. At 27, he was the youngest mayor of a French city of more than 30,000 inhabitants. He left the General Council in 1982.
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