Jacques Hébert (8 August 1920 – 15 February 2018) was a French politician. Born on 8 August 1920 in

Falaise, Calvados Falaise () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Geography Falaise lies on the river Ante, a tributary of the river Dives, about southeast of Caen. History The area around Falaise has been ...

, Hébert ended his medical studies at the age of 20 to join the

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. For his military service, Hébert was named a Grand Officier of the

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and received an

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. He was elected mayor of

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in 1959 and stepped down in 1977. Between 1963 and 1973, Hébert represented the fifth constituency of

Manche Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', literally "the sleeve", in French. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.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 repre ...

. He died in Falaise, Calvados, at the age of 97 on 15 February 2018.

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