cabinet
Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to:
Furniture
* Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers
* Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets
* Filing ...
. The health portfolio oversees the health care public services and the health insurance part of the French Social Security. As French ministerial departments are not fixed and depend on the Prime Minister's choice, the Minister sometimes also has one or some of other portfolios among Work, Pensions, Family, the Elderly, Handicapped people and Women's Rights. In that case, he is helped by one or some junior Minister focusing on one part of the portfolio. The current Minister is François Braun.
Paul Strauss
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Camille Blaisot
Camille Blaisot (19 January 1881 – 24 January 1945) was a French politician and lawyer.
Blaisot was born in Valognes and was elected in 1914 to represent Caen in the Chamber of Deputies of France, Chamber of Deputies. He served as Minister of ...
Émile Lisbonne
Émile Lisbonne (20 June 1876 – 21 December 1947) was a French lawyer and Radical politician. He was briefly Minister of Health in 1933, and again for a few days in 1934.
Early years
Émile Lisbonne was born on 20 June 1876 in Nyons, Drôme.
He ...
26 October 1933 – 26 November 1933
* Alexandre Israël 26 November 1933 – 30 January 1934
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Émile Lisbonne
Émile Lisbonne (20 June 1876 – 21 December 1947) was a French lawyer and Radical politician. He was briefly Minister of Health in 1933, and again for a few days in 1934.
Early years
Émile Lisbonne was born on 20 June 1876 in Nyons, Drôme.
He ...
30 January 1934 – 9 February 1934
* Louis Marin 9 February 1934 – 8 November 1934
* Henri Queuille 8 November 1934 – 1 June 1935
* Louis Lafont 1 June 1935 – 24 January 1936
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Louis Nicolle
Louis Nicolle (16 June 1871 – 23 July 1942) was a French linen manufacturer and politician who was a deputy from 1924 to 1936, and was Minister of Health in 1936.
Life
Louis Nicolle was born on 16 June 1871 in Lille, Nord.
Nicolle's father was ...
24 January 1936 – 4 June 1936
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Henri Sellier
Henri Charles Sellier (22 December 1883 – 24 November 1943) was a French administrator, urban planner and Socialist politician.
He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region.
He was Minister of Health in 1936–37.
Life
Early years
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4 June 1936 – 22 June 1937
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Marc Rucart
Marc Émile Rucart (24 July 1893 – 23 January 1964) was a French journalist and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1928 to 1942.
He alternated between the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Health from 1936 to 1940.
Although he ...
22 June 1937 – 13 March 1938
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Fernand Gentin
Fernand Gentin (27 September 1876 – 24 April 1946) was a French printer and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1932 to 1942.
He was Minister of PTT and then Minister of Health in 1938, and Minister of Commerce from 1938 to 1940.
In the per ...
13 March 1938 – 10 April 1938
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Marc Rucart
Marc Émile Rucart (24 July 1893 – 23 January 1964) was a French journalist and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1928 to 1942.
He alternated between the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Health from 1936 to 1940.
Although he ...
Georges Pernot
Auguste Alain Georges Pernot (6 November 1879 – 14 September 1962) was a conservative French lawyer and politician.
He was a deputy and then a senator before and during World War II (1939–45).
He was Minister of Public Works (France), Minister ...
25 February 1941 – 12 August 1941
* Serge Huard 12 August 1941 – 18 April 1942
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Raymond Grasset
Raymond Grasset (10 January 1892 - 8 February 1968) was a French politician. He began his career as a physician. He was the Secretary (or Minister) of Family and Health from 18 April 1942 to 20 August 1944.
References
1892 births
1968 dea ...
François Billoux
François Billoux (21 May 1903 – 14 January 1978) was a French communist politician.
Biography
Billoux was born in Saint-Romain-la-Motte. He was a member of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1926, and a member ...
Georges Marrane
Georges Marrane (20 January 1888, Louviers, Eure – 27 August 1976) was a French politician. He was the candidate of the French Communist Party for the presidential election of 1958.
Life and career
Marrane became the first Communist mayo ...
Pierre Schneiter
François Charles Pierre Schneiter (13 May 1905 – 19 March 1979) was a French politician.
Pierre Schneiter was born in Reims, elder son of Charles Albert Schneiter, a wine broker, and Jeanne Marie Alice Sart. Charles Schneiter's father wa ...
26 July 1948 – 11 August 1951
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Paul Ribeyre
Paul François Ribeyre (11 December 1906 – 14 January 1988) was a French mineral water bottler and liberal conservative politician who was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly and then the National Assembly from 1945 to 1958, then a senator from ...
Paul Ribeyre
Paul François Ribeyre (11 December 1906 – 14 January 1988) was a French mineral water bottler and liberal conservative politician who was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly and then the National Assembly from 1945 to 1958, then a senator from ...
11 February 1953 – 28 June 1953
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Paul Coste-Floret
Paul Coste-Floret (9 April 1911 – 27 August 1979) was a French politician. He was born and died in Montpellier, France.
Career
Coste-Floret was originally an academic, becoming Doctor of Law in 1935 and teaching law at the University of ...
28 June 1953 – 19 June 1954
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Louis-Paul Aujoulat
Louis-Paul Aujoulat (28 August 1910 – 1 December 1973) was a French politician and missionary doctor. Following his long and illustrious political career he served as France's representative to the World Health Organization.
Early life
Aujoulat ...
Bernard Lafay
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The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...
14 May 1958 – 1 June 1958
* Bernard Chenot 7 July 1958 – 24 August 1961
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Joseph Fontanet
Joseph Fontanet (9 February 1921, Frontenex, Savoie – 2 February 1980, Paris) was a French politician.
He was first elected to Parliament in 1956 as MP for Savoie
Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ...
Robert Boulin
Robert Boulin (20 July 1920 – 30 October 1979) was a French politician who served as Minister of Labour in the French Cabinet and was at the centre of a major real-estate scandal that ended only with his death in mysterious circumstances. At t ...
Michel Poniatowski
Michel Poniatowski (16 May 1922 – 15 January 2002) was a French politician, member of a legitimized line of Poland's princely Poniatowski family. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President ...
5 April 1973 – 27 May 1974
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Simone Veil
Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. A ...
27 May 1974 – 4 July 1979
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Jacques Barrot
Jacques Barrot (3 February 1937 – 3 December 2014) was a French politician, who served as European Commissioner for Justice between 2008 and 2010, after having spent four years serving as Commissioner for Transport (2004–2008) and Commissi ...
Jack Ralite
Jack Ralite (14 May 1928 – 12 November 2017) was a French politician. He was elected in 1973 to the Seine-Saint-Denis constituency for the French Communist Party. In 1981 he became Minister for Health and subsequently Minister for Employment ...
22 June 1981 – 22 March 1983
* Michèle Barzach 1986 – 1988
* Claude Evin 23 June 1988 – 15 May 1991
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Simone Veil
Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. A ...
29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995 with
Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy (; born 1 January 1953) is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Adviser on Innovative Financi ...
as junior Minister
* Élisabeth Hubert 18 May 1995 – 7 November 1995
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Jacques Barrot
Jacques Barrot (3 February 1937 – 3 December 2014) was a French politician, who served as European Commissioner for Justice between 2008 and 2010, after having spent four years serving as Commissioner for Transport (2004–2008) and Commissi ...
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...
as
Prime Minister
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Élisabeth Guigou
Élisabeth Guigou (; born Élisabeth Vallier; 6 August 1946) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017, representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency.
Early life and ...
18 October 2000 – 7 May 2002
*As junior Minister
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Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy (; born 1 January 1953) is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Adviser on Innovative Financi ...
31 March 2004 – 2 June 2005
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Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand (; born 21 March 1965) is a French politician who has been serving as president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France since the 2015 regional elections.
Earlier in his career, Bertrand was Minister of Health from 2005 to ...
2 June 2005 – 26 March 2007
* Philippe Bas 26 March 2007 – 18 May 2007
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Nora Berra
Nora Berra (born 21 January 1963, in Lyon) is a French physician and politician who served as Secretary of State for Seniors (2009-2010) and as Secretary of State for Health (2010-2012) in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 ...
and
Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand (; born 21 March 1965) is a French politician who has been serving as president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France since the 2015 regional elections.
Earlier in his career, Bertrand was Minister of Health from 2005 to ...
August 2010 – May 2012
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Marisol Touraine
Marisol Touraine (; born 7 March 1959) is a French politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Health under Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault,Angelique ChrisafisWomen in the French cabinet ''The Guardian'', 18 May 2012Olivier Auguste ...
16 May 2012 – 10 May 2017
* Agnès Buzyn 17 May 2017 – 16 February 2020
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Brigitte Bourguignon
Brigitte Bourguignon (born 21 March 1959) is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Solidarity and Health in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in 2022.
A member of the Socialist Party (PS) before she joined La RÃ ...
Health
Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...