Charles de Chambrun (1930–2010) was a French politician.

Early life

Charles de Chambrun was born on June 16, 1930, in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, France. His grandfather

Pierre de Chambrun Pierre de Chambrun (11 June 1865 in Paris – 24 August 1954) was a French politician. Early life Charles Louis Antoine Pierre Gilbert Pineton de Chambrun was born in Paris. The Pineton de Chambrun family was of noble origin and politically ...

and uncle, Gilbert de Chambrun, were politicians. He was a direct descendant of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

Career

De Chambrun served as Secretary of Foreign Trade from February 1966 to March 1967 under Prime Minister

Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( , ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He previously was Prime Minister of France of President Charles de Gaulle from 1962 to 196 ...

and President Charles de Gaulle. He served as a member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...

from 1968 to 1972, representing

Lozère Lozère (; oc, Losera ) is a landlocked department in the region of Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the east by Ardèche, to the south by Gard, to the west by Aveyron, ...

. After joining the National Front, he served again from 1986 to 1988, representing Gard. He was elected as the mayor of Saint-Gilles in 1992.

Death

De Chambrun died on October 21, 2010, in

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, Tunisia at the age of 80.

References

1930 births 2010 deaths Politicians from Paris 20th-century French nobility Popular Republican Movement politicians Union for the New Republic politicians Union of Democrats for the Republic politicians National Rally (France) politicians Government ministers of France Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 4th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Lozère Members of Parliament for Gard Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region) {{France-politician-FN-stub