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    Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (4 March 1920 – 22 February 1993) was a French centrist politician. Lecanuet was born to a family of modest means in Rouen...
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    candidacy led to other politicians entering the race. The MRP leader Jean Lecanuet was nominated by his party and the National Centre of Independents and...
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  • The party's long-time leader was Jean Lecanuet. Democratic Centre was founded on 2 February 1966 by Jean Lecanuet after his 1965 presidential campaign...
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  • Assembly and the MRP suffered a serious electoral defeat. In 1963, Jean Lecanuet took the leadership in order to renew the party's image. He was a candidate...
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    had promised to decriminalize abortion during his campaign; however, Jean Lecanuet, then Minister of Justice, refused to defend the law on personal and...
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  • a new "centrist pole" within it, the New Centre led by Hervé Morin. Jean Lecanuet (1978–1988) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1988–1996) François Léotard (1996–1998)...
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  • with the foundation of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS) in 1976 by Jean Lecanuet, which remained independent of the activities of the senatorial group...
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  • right-wing opposition to de Gaulle gathered in the Democratic Centre led by Jean Lecanuet, the "third man" of 1965 presidential election. However some centrists...
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    Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election. Jean-Jacques Schreiber...
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    politics pushed the MPR into opposition before dissolving in 1965. Jean Lecanuet was inspired to found a new party, the Democratic Centre. The Union...
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    Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was the centrist and Christian democratic component of the UDF. Its leader Jean Lecanuet was the first...
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    Poujade and his party largely faded from view. In 1965, Poujade supported Jean Lecanuet for president. In the 1981 and 1988 presidential elections, Poujade...
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  • April–June 1969 René Pleven, 1969–1973 Jean Taittinger, 1973–1974 Jean Lecanuet, 1974–1976 Olivier Guichard, 1976–1977 Alain Peyrefitte, 1977–1981 Maurice...
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    voice of opposition for centrism, taking up causes like the plight of Jean Lecanuet. After the accidental death of Robert Lazurick in April 1968, his widow...
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    , series: Le livre de poche 14779. Chaline, Nadine-Josette (2000). Jean Lecanuet. Paris: Beauchesne. ISBN 2-7010-1405-0., "témoignages de François Bayrou...
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  • his presidential campaign in 1974. As Minister of Justice, it fell to Jean Lecanuet to defend the law in Parliament, but he refused on grounds of personal...
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    Apéry (1916–1994), mathematician Jean Lecanuet (1920–1993), politician Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), film director Jean-Yves Lechevallier (b. 1946), sculptor...
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  • Radical Party (PR) led by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and the Christian-democratic Democratic Centre (CD) headed by Jean Lecanuet. The first convention...
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    Telecommunications Michel Durafour – Minister of Employment and Social Affairs Jean Lecanuet – Minister of Justice René Haby – Minister of National Education Simone...
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    better than expected; the leftist François Mitterrand received 32% and Jean Lecanuet, who advocated for what Life described as "Gaullism without de Gaulle"...
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    Center group (Independents and MRP). He supported the candidacy of Jean Lecanuet during the presidential election of 1965. In March 1967, he was beaten...
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  • Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian physician and politician (d. 1996) 1920 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1993) 1920 – Alan...
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    journalist, editor Alain Lebaube [fr], writer Maurice Leblanc, writer Jean Lecanuet, politician Maurice Louvrier [fr], artist painter André Marie, politician...
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    PS–MRG Pierre Mauroy 37.52 283 +169 RPR Jacques Chirac 20.81 85 −65 UDF Jean Lecanuet 19.20 61 −69 PCF Georges Marchais 16.17 44 −42 DVD – 2.80 11 +2 DVG...
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  • Trek) (d. 2005) Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (d. 2011) March 4 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993) March 5 – Rachel Gurney, British actress...
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    guardian. In addition to the right to vote, France's Justice Minister Jean Lecanuet said, the law gave persons 18 to 21, for the first time, the right to...
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    +56 RPR Jacques Chirac 19.18 128 −21 UDF Jean Lecanuet 18.50 130 +3 PCF Georges Marchais 11.32 27 −8 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 9.66 1 −34 DVD – 2.85 12 −2...
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    during the French occupation of the Rhineland. He was the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d'Estaing, a high-ranking civil servant, and his wife...
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    request of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. France's Justice Minister Jean Lecanuet said that the law also gave persons 18 to 21, for the first time, the...
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    Party President In office CD Jean Lecanuet 1974 RI André Bettencourt 1974–1981 PS Laurent Fabius 1981–1982 PS Tony Larue 1982 RPR Roger Fossé 1982–1992...
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