Serge Godard (born 25 March 1936) is a French politician. He represented the French department of
Puy-de-Dôme
Puy-de-Dôme (; oc, label=Auvergnat, lo Puèi de Doma or ''lo Puèi Domat'') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the centre of France. In 2019, it had a population of 662,152.Senate from September 1998 to September 2001 and again from March 2010 to September 2011.
Born in
Gerzat
Gerzat (; Auvergnat: ''Gerzac'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department
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, Puy-de-Dôme, he studied in Clermont-Ferrand, Sedan,
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
then Paris and in 1966, he received the diploma of physics doctorate. Between 1971 and 1976, he was the headmaster of "observatoire de physique" in Clermont-Ferrand and become a professor in Blaise Pascal University until 1996.
When Godard was eight, his mother Simone was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
From 4 July 1997 to 22 April 2014, he was the mayor of
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,734 (2018). Its metropolitan area (''aire d'attract ...
Olivier Bianchi
Olivier Bianchi (born June 10, 1970, in Paris) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party, he has been mayor of Clermont-Ferrand since April 4, 2014 and president of Clermont Auvergne Métropole since April 2 ...
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Godard was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Senate in 2001. He did not run for reelection in 2011. He was a member of the French
Socialist Party
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