Barbara Romagnan is a teacher and a French politician who was a member of the
Socialist Party
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since 1995. She later joined the
1 July Movement
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.
Biography
Barbara Romagnan was born 25 April 1974 in the city of
Annecy
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. After studies in
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
(
Rhône
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) she obtained a doctorate in political science in 2003, with a thesis titled 'Do women do politics differently?' and she was a socialist and feminist activist. Romagnan taught philosophy at the
Dannemarie-sur-Crète high school, and also taught medical-social sciences at
Besançon
Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...
. Since 2003, Romagnan has been a member of the national chamber of Socialist Party and was the national secretary for the reunification of the party, from 2005 to 2008. In March 2008, she was elected to the post of governor of the
Canton of Besançon-Planoise. She was Deputy for
Doubs's 1st constituency in the
National Assembly of France
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from 2012 to 2017.
See also
*
Planoise
Planoise () is an urban area in the western part of Besançon, France, built in the 1960s between the hill of Planoise and the district of Hauts-de-Chazal. It is the most populous district of Besançon, with 21,000 inhabitants (17% of the tota ...
*
Jean-Louis Fousseret
Bibliography
* 2005 : Du sexe en politique - Thèse de science politique - Editions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch (réponse à la question : « les femmes font-elles de la politique autrement que les hommes ? »).
References
External links
*
Official website of Barbara Romagnan*
Vidéo of Barbara Romagnan on www.parti-socialiste.fr
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Planoise
Socialist Party (France) politicians
People from Annecy
French educators
1974 births
Living people
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Génération.s politicians