Huguette Bouchardeau (born 1 June 1935) is a French socialist politician, as well as a
publisher
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(founder of
HB Éditions), essayist, and
biographer
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Biographers
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.
Political career
Bouchardeau was a candidate of the
Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in the
1981 presidential election, receiving 1.1% of the vote, and National Secretary of the Party between 1979 and 1981. Bouchardeau also served as
Minister of the Environment and Way of Life in the
French Socialist Party
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The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major p ...
-led
cabinets
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of
Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy (; 5 July 1928 – 7 June 2013) was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001. At the time of his de ...
(1981–1984) and
Laurent Fabius
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(1984–1986).
Selected works
* ''La famille
Renoir
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'', 2004
* ''La grande verrière'', 1991
*''Le déjeuner'', 1998
*''Le ministère du possible'', 1986
*''Les roches rouges: Portrait d'un père'', 1997
*''Leur père notre père'', 1996
*''Mes nuits avec
Descartes'', 2002
*''
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak ( rus, Ната́лья Ильи́нична Черня́к); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer.
Personal life
Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), 300&n ...
'', 2003
*''Pas d'histoire, les femmes'', 1977
*''Rose Noël'', 1992
*''
Simone Weil
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...
'', 1995
*''Tout le possible'', 1981
*, 1975
*''Un coin dans leur monde'',1980
References
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1935 births
Living people
People from Saint-Étienne
Candidates in the 1981 French presidential election
Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians
French socialist feminists
French Ministers of the Environment
Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Women government ministers of France
French biographers
French essayists
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
20th-century French women