Roland Dumas
| Roland Dumas | |
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Roland Dumas in the 1980s
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| French Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 10 May 1988 – 28 March 1993 |
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| President | François Mitterrand |
| Prime Minister |
Michel Rocard Édith Cresson Pierre Bérégovoy |
| Preceded by | Jean-Bernard Raimond |
| Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
| President of the Constitutional Council | |
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In office 1995–2000 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | Robert Badinter |
| Succeeded by | Yves Guéna |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 August 1922 Limoges, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
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Roland Dumas (born 23 August 1922 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne) is a lawyer and French Socialist politician who served notably as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 1999.
Son of Georges Dumas, a civil servant in Limoges's region and Socialist resistant to the German Occupation during the Second World War, shot at by the Gestapo, he conveyed weapons for the Resistance. He was arrested after the boycott of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by French students. After the war, he completed his law and political science studies in the Ecole libre des sciences politiques and the London School of Economics.
Journalist and lawyer, he defended Jean Mons, Secretary-General of the Defense Committee, from charges of negligence in a case where Mons's assistant was accused of passing secrets of national security to communists. In this, he became close to François Mitterrand, president of the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR) party, himself suspected in the same scandal.
In 1956, he was elected deputy for Haute-Vienne département, under the UDSR banner, but he lost his seat in the 1958 legislative election, which followed the return of General Charles de Gaulle to power. He came back into the French National Assembly between 1967 and 1968 as representative of Corrèze département. Member of the renewed Socialist Party (PS) led by Mitterrand, he became deputy for Gironde département in 1973, then for Dordogne département on the occasion of the "pink wave" of 1981. In 1974 he acted as defense lawyer for Hilarion Capucci who was prosecuted in Israel with charges of smuggling weapons into Israel, for the PLO.
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