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    Georges René Louis Marchais (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) ʁəne lwi maʁʃɛ]; 7 June 1920 – 16 November 1997) was the head of the French Communist Party...
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  • up marchais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marchais may refer to: Auguste Marchais (1872–1951), French athlete and Olympian Georges Marchais (1920–1997)...
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    heavy losses in the ensuing parliamentary elections, the party adopted Georges Marchais as leader and in 1973 entered into a "Common Programme" alliance with...
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    succeeded as secretary-general by Georges Marchais, who had effectively controlled the party since 1970. Marchais began a moderate liberalization of...
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    force was cemented by a 1977 meeting in Madrid between Berlinguer, Georges Marchais, and Santiago Carrillo. Berlinguer described his alternative model...
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    was employed in a psychiatrical institution in Argenteuil. Close to Georges Marchais, Hue climbed the steps in the Party hierarchy, being also elected mayor...
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  • Liliane Marchais (24 August 1935 – 9 April 2020) was a French communist activist. Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker...
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  • canceled in 1995. François Mitterrand: Kermitterrand, as Kermit the Frog Georges Marchais: Marchy la cochonne as Miss Piggy Raymond Barre: Barzzie as Fozzie...
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    Mitterrand signed the Common Programme of Government with the Communist Georges Marchais and the Left Radical Robert Fabre. With this programme, he led the...
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    708,262 51.76 Jacques Chirac Rally for the Republic 5,225,848 18.00 Georges Marchais French Communist Party 4,456,922 15.35 Brice Lalonde Political Ecology...
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  • French Resistance leader Georges Mandjeck, Cameroonian footballer Georges Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player Georges Marchais, general secretary of the...
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    Jaruzelski Franz Muhri (de) Louis Van Geyt Jørgen Jensen Marcus Bakker Georges Marchais Jimmy Carter Harold Brown David C. Jones SACEUR: Gen. Alexander Haig...
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    PCI's Enrico Berlinguer, the PCE's Santiago Carrillo and the PCF's Georges Marchais met in Madrid and laid out the fundamental lines of the "new way"....
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    Communist leaders were very disappointed by the result of their candidate, Georges Marchais, in the presidential election, and very worried by the legislative...
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    Allier in the 8th legislature. A close collaborator of party leader Georges Marchais, he was chosen to be the PCF's candidate in the 1988 presidential election...
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    classed as a Monument historique La Hoguette was the birthplace of Georges Marchais (1920–1997), head of the French Communist Party. Communes of the Calvados...
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    voices raised were those of foreign Communists. French Communist leader Georges Marchais boycotted the congress after criticizing the Soviet Union's suppression...
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    by René Camphin [fr]. Albert Ouzoulias was in charge of operations, and Georges Beyer was responsible for armaments and recruitment. Marcel Prenant [fr]...
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    of François Mitterrand and the Parti communiste français (PCF) of Georges Marchais made only a slight gain. The governing coalition's 298 to 193 lead...
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    sixth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. On 2 April 1974 President Georges Pompidou died. The non-Gaullist center-right leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
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    (Egypt): Fati Mohammad (Secretary-General) Communist Party of France: Georges Marchais (Secretary general) French Socialist Party: François Mitterrand (First...
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    election. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac (17.9%) and Communist Party leader Georges Marchais (15.3%) were the next highest vote getters. The other candidates were...
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  • Maurice Faure · French National Assembly foreign affairs chairman Georges Marchais · French Communist Party general secretary Maxime Gremetz · French...
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    health. In 1970, as Rochet had become too ill to attend to his duties, Georges Marchais became the de facto Party leader, while Rochet remained National Secretary...
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    French Communist Party and the labor unions opposed the demonstrations; Georges Marchais, the lead of the Communist Party in France, called Cohn-Bendit "a German...
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    Jacques Chirac 40.97 277 +131 PS Laurent Fabius 31.04 207 −62 PCF Georges Marchais 9.77 35 −9 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 9.65 35 +35 DVD – 3.91 14 +3 DVG –...
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  • Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995) 1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997) 1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian...
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    Giscard d'Estaing 19.08 213 +83 PS Pierre Bérégovoy 17.60 53 −209 PCF Georges Marchais 9.18 24 −3 DVD – 4.72 24 +12 DVG – 1.80 10 +4 MRG Jean-François Hory...
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    constitutional referendum led him to resign. His former Prime minister Georges Pompidou was elected president. In order to respond to the discontent expressed...
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  • the Soviet government. The title of the song derives from words of Georges Marchais on 23 April 1979. According to the leader of the French Communist Party...
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