Robert Fabre

Robert Fabre (21 December 1915 in

Villefranche-de-Rouergue Villefranche-de-Rouergue (; oc, Vilafranca de Roergue ) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Villefranche-de-Rouergue station has rail connections to Toulouse, Figeac and Aurillac. History At the end of the Albigens ...

Aveyron Aveyron (; oc, Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyronnais'' (masculine) or ''Aveyronnaises'' (feminine) in French. The inhabitants ...

– 23 December 2006 in

) was a French politician and pharmacist. He was a founding member of the Left Radical Movement (MRG) in 1972 and served as the leader of the MRG until 1978. In this capacity, he became known as the "third man" - the third signatory of the Common Programme of the Union of the Left with François Mitterrand ( PS) and Georges Marchais ( PCF). He was himself excluded from the party in 1979 when he accepted a special research mission on work offered to him by right-wing President

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, , ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ...

. He founded the Federation of Radical Democracy, but the party never achieved significant success. He died in 2006, shortly after the death of

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 19247 November 2006), was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded ''L'Express'' in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radica ...

, his rival within the Radical-Socialist Party. Servan-Schreiber has been the leader of the right wing of the Radical Party. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fabre, Robert 1915 births 2006 deaths People from Villefranche-de-Rouergue Politicians from Occitania (administrative region) Radical Party (France) politicians Radical Party of the Left politicians 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 5th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 6th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French pharmacists Ombudsmen in France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur