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Michel Vaxès
Michel Vaxès (November 14, 1940 – September 18, 2016) was a French politician. Early life Michel Vaxès was born on November 14, 1940 in Marseille, Southern France. Career Vaxès was a school counsellor. Vaxès was a member of the French Communist Party. He served on the city council of Port-de-Bouc, and eventually served as its mayor. He also served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012, representing the Bouches-du-Rhône department. His parliamentary assistant was Gaby Charroux, who subsequently won his seat in the assembly. In 2003, in the midst of his tenure, he tried to remove the word "race" from the Constitution of France The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic , and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946 with the exception of the preamble per a Consti ..., unsuccessfully. Personal life and death Vaxès was married to René ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
