Pierre Marcilhacy (14 February 1910,

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– 6 July 1987) was a French lawyer and public figure. His family home in

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during World War II. It was then that he met his wife Gabrielle van Heutz (Kinny), a Dutch woman. They had two children, a daughter, Catherine, and a son, Antoine. In the 1930, Marcilhacy was a member of the

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(PSF). In the

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, he was a candidate for the

Republican Party of Liberty The Republican Party of Liberty (french: Parti républicain de la liberté, PRL) was a centre-right to right-wing French political party founded after the Liberation of France on 22 December 1945 by Joseph Laniel, André Mutter, Édouard Fré ...

(PRL), but was not elected. He was Senator for the Charente from 1948 to 1980, sitting at first in the

National Centre of Independents and Peasants The National Centre of Independents and Peasants (''Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans'', CNIP) is a right-wing agrarian political party in France, founded in 1951 by the merger of the National Centre of Independents (the heir of the ...

(CNIP) group, later as an Independent. He chaired the Senat Commission revising the Code Civil. In 1965 he ran against

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...

in the French presidential election as candidate of the European Liberal Party, a small centrist liberal group. He won 1.71% and was thus eliminated. In the runoff election he supported

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, who was born in the same town, Jarnac. DeGaulle won the runoff. Marcilhacy is remembered as one of a number of widely diverse candidates – from both the left and the right – who stood against de Gaulle in 1965. Marcilhavy lost his Senate seat in 1981. In 1983 Mitterrand, who had become President of France, appointed him in 1983 to the

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, the French Court that decides all questions of constitutional law. Under the nom de plume, Pierre Debassac ota bene he wrote and published several novels, such as ''Le lion et la demoiselle'' and ''La musique de la tante Aurele''. He died in 1987.

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1910 births 1987 deaths Politicians from Paris French Social Party politicians Republican Party of Liberty politicians National Centre of Independents and Peasants politicians French senators of the Fourth Republic French senators of the Fifth Republic Senators of Charente Candidates in the 1965 French presidential election Writers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine French novelists {{Charente-politician-stub

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