The Debré family is a French family including several prominent

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Simon Debré, was born in

Westhoffen Westhoffen (; german: Westhofen im Elsass; gsw-als, Westhofe) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. History From 1236 Westhofen was a fief of the Holy Roman Empire to the Lords of Lichtenberg, ...

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

. His ancestors came from

Harburg, Bavaria Harburg (; Swabian: ''Horburg'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Wörnitz and on the southeastern edge of the Ries meteorite crater in the UNESCO Global Geopark Ries. The town is p ...

''Regards sur la culture judéo-alsacienne'' Éditions La Nuée bleue/DNA, Strasbourg, 2001,

Simon Debré (1854–1939), rabbi x 1882 Marianne Trenel (1860–1949) │ ├──>

Robert Debré Robert Debré (7 December 1882 – 29 April 1978) was a French physician (pediatrician) at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. The largest pediatric hospital in Paris, l'Hôpital Robert-Debré - located in the North-East part of Paris (19 ...

(1882–1978), physician │ x 1908 Jeanne Debat-Ponsan (1879–1929), daughter of

Édouard Debat-Ponsan Édouard Debat-Ponsan (25 April 1847 – 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter noted for his allegorical works, scenes of peasant life and Orientalist works. Biography Debat-Ponsan was born in Toulouse. His younger brother was organis ...

(1847 - 1913) │ │ │ ├──> Michel Debré (1912–1996), politician │ │ x 1936 Anne-Marie Lemaresquier (1912-) │ │ │ │ │ ├──> Vincent Debré (1939-), businessman │ │ │ x Isabelle de Lacroix-Vaubois (1957-) │ │ │ │ │ ├──> François Debré (1942-2020), journalis │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──>

Constance Debré Constance Debré, born in 1972, is a French lawyer and novelist. Biography Constance Debré's parents were journalist François Debré (1942–2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942–1988); the judge and politician Jean-Louis Debré ...

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Bernard Debré Bernard Debré (30 September 194413 September 2020) was a French urologist at Hôpital Cochin and a member (deputy) of the National Assembly of France. He was one of the representatives of the city of Paris, and was a member of the Union for ...

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Jean-Louis Debré Jean-Louis Debré (; born 30 September 1944) is a former French judge and politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016.Olivier Debré Olivier Debré (14 April 1920 – 1 June 1999) was a French abstract painter. Biography It was following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figura ...

(1920–1999), painter │ │ └──> Claire Debré (1888–1972) x 1907 Anselme Schwartz (1872–1957), surgeon and member of the ''

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Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 19 ...

(1915–2002), mathematician

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