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Jean-Marc Ayrault

Jean-Marc Ayrault
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development
Assumed office
11 February 2016
Prime Minister Manuel Valls
Bernard Cazeneuve
Preceded by Laurent Fabius
Prime Minister of France
In office
16 May 2012 – 1 April 2014
President François Hollande
Preceded by François Fillon
Succeeded by Manuel Valls
Leader of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left
In office
12 June 1997 – 19 June 2012
Preceded by Laurent Fabius
Succeeded by Bruno Le Roux
Mayor of Nantes
In office
20 March 1989 – 21 June 2012
Preceded by Michel Chauty
Succeeded by Patrick Rimbert
Mayor of Saint-Herblain
In office
14 March 1977 – 20 March 1989
Preceded by Michel Chauty
Succeeded by Charles Gautier
Member of the National Assembly
for Loire-Atlantique's 3rd constituency
In office
23 June 1988 – 20 July 2012
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Fougerat
In office
14 March 1977 – 20 March 1989
Preceded by Jean-Pierre Fougerat
Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Fougerat
Personal details
Born (1950-01-25) 25 January 1950 (age 67)
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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