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Valérie Pécresse
Valérie Anne Émilie Pécresse (; Birth name, née Roux ; 14 July 1967) is a French politician who has been the President of the Regional Council (France), President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans (France), The Republicans, she previously served as Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (France), Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and List of Budget Ministers of France, Minister of the Budget and List of government spokespeople of France, Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012 under Prime Minister François Fillon. Pécresse represented the Yvelines's 2nd constituency, 2nd constituency of Yvelines in the National Assembly (France), National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2012 until 2016. Pécresse was voted as the Republicans' nominee for the 2022 French presidential election, defeating Éric Ciotti in the 2021 The Republicans congress, party primary. She came fifth in the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The Regional Council (France)
The following is a list of current presidents of the Regional council (France), regional councils of France. All regions in metropolitan France are governed by a regional council, with their respective presidents elected by and among their members to lead the executive; the Corsican Assembly is the sole exception, as it controls the Executive Council of Corsica, Executive Council. In overseas France, the local institutions vary across the five regions. List Since 2011, the Departmental Council of Mayotte has simultaneously exercised the competencies of a regional council. Since 2015, the Regional Council of Martinique and the Regional Council of French Guiana have been merged with their respective Departmental council (France), departmental councils to form a single territorial structure of governance. List Summary By party By sex Historic presidents Current regions Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council of Brittany Regional Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Borotra
Franck Borotra (born 30 August 1937) is a French politician, member of the Rally for the Republic party. He was the Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones from 7 November 1995 to 2 June 1997 under the government of Prime Minister Alain Juppé and was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 2002. He also served as President of the Departmental Council of Yvelines and Deputy Mayor of the city of Versailles. Despite his long career in local and national politics, Borotra is little known among the French public. Early life and family Borotra was born on 30 August 1937 in Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique department on the west coast of France. He trained as an engineer. Before entering politics, he worked in an oil refinery in Dunkirk. In a 2013 public appearance, he said that it was a visit by the former French President Charles de Gaulle to the refinery that motivated him to join politics. He is the twin brother of Didier Borotra, (Democratic Movement - MoDem), former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Ciotti
Éric Ciotti ( or , ; born 28 September 1965) is a French politician who led The Republicans (LR) from 2022 to 2024. He has represented Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency in the National Assembly since the 2007 legislative election. Once a member of The Republicans' right-wing, he was seeking to distance the party from Emmanuel Macron's presidency. He left The Republicans in 2024, and is now the leader of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party and parliamentary group. Ciotti briefly served as First Deputy Mayor of Nice under Mayor Christian Estrosi in 2008, before he assumed the presidency of the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2008 to 2017. He sought the party's nomination for the 2022 presidential election at its 2021 congress; he unexpectedly placed first in the first round of voting, but was defeated by centre-right candidate Valérie Pécresse in the second round. In December 2022, following Pécresse's historic loss in the presidential ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 French Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in France on 10 and 24 April 2022. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a Two-round system, runoff was held, in which Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen and was re-elected as President of France. Macron, from La République En Marche! (LREM), had defeated Le Pen, leader of the National Rally, once already in the 2017 French presidential election, for the term which expired on 13 May 2022. Macron became the first president of France to win a re-election bid since Jacques Chirac won in 2002 French presidential election, 2002. In the first round Macron finished first with 28% of the vote, followed by Le Pen with 23%, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise with 22% and Éric Zemmour of Reconquête with 7%. Valérie Pécresse of The Republicans (France), the Republicans received 5% of the vote and Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris and Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party candidate, 2%. Both the Republicans and the Socialists, consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÃŽle-de-France
The ÃŽle-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the Paris Region (, ). ÃŽle-de-France is densely populated and retains a prime economic position on the national stage, and it covers , about 2% of Metropolitan France, metropolitan French territory. Its 2017 population was nearly one-fifth of the national total. The region is made up of eight administrative Departments of France, departments: Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines. It was created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961. In 1976, when its status was aligned with the French administrative regions created in 1972, it was renamed after the historic province of ÃŽle-de-France. Residents are sometimes referred to as ''Franciliens'', an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birth Name
The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births register or birth certificate may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or ''brit milah'') will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some possible changes concern middle names, diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and changes related to gender transition. Matters are very different in some cultures in which a birth name is for childhood only, rather than for life. Maiden and married names The terms née (feminine) and né (masculine; both pronounced ; ), Glossary of French expressions in Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Roux
"Dominique" is a 1963 French language popular song, written and performed by Belgian singer Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile" in French) or The Singing Nun. The song is about Saint Dominic, a Spanish-born priest and founder of the Dominican Order, of which she was a member (as Sister Luc-Gabrielle). The English-version lyrics of the song were written by Noël Regney. In addition to French and English, Deckers recorded versions in Dutch, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. It was a top selling record in 11 countries in late 1963 and early 1964. Commercial performance "Dominique" reached the Top 10 in 11 countries in late 1963 and early 1964, topping the chart in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It reached the Top 5 in Norway, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, with the song making it into the lower reaches of the Top 10 in the Netherlands, West Germany, and the United Kingdom. The song reached and stayed at No. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
École Nationale D'administration
The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution Michel Debré, to democratize access to the senior French civil service, civil service. The school was frequently criticized from the 1970's onward for having built an incredibly elitist culture as well as being a stronghold for Technocracy, technocrats. As a result, it was dissolved on 31 December 2021 and replaced by the Institut national du service public (INSP). The ENA selected and supervised the initial training of senior French officials. It was considered to be one of the most academically demanding French schools, both because of its low acceptance rates and because a large majority of its candidates had already graduated from other elite schools in the country such as Sciences Po or the École polytechnique, École Polytechnique. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HEC Paris
HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional development, professional certification, and PhD programs. History Founded in 1881 by Gustave Emmanuel Roy, president of the Paris Chamber of Commerce (CCIP), with 57 students in its first class, the ''École des hautes études commerciales de Paris'' (HEC) aimed to be in the fields of management and commerce what the '' École Centrale de Paris'' was in the field of engineering. In 1921, the school introduced the case-based method of the Harvard Business School, but most of the lectures remained theoretical. In 1938, the HEC program was lengthened to 3 years. Due to French corporations' demand for North-American-style management education, at the end of the 1950s, the case-based method was generalized and a one-year '' classe préparatoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Privé Sainte-Geneviève
Lycée Sainte-Geneviève () is a higher education institution located in France, Established in 1854, it is a private ''lycée'', located in Versailles, providing preparatory classes for ''grandes écoles''. It was founded by the Jesuits in Paris. It is often nicknamed ''Ginette'' and sometimes ''BJ'', standing for ''Boite à Jèzes'' (Box of Jesuits). Academics Ginette provides PC/PC*, MP/MP*, PT/PT*, PSI*, ECG and BCPST classes. Notable alumni Military * Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934), Marshal of France * Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889–1952), Marshal of France * Antoine Béthouart (1889–1982), Compagnon de la Libération * Henry de Bournazel (1898–1933) * Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941), Compagnon de la Libération * Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902–1947), Compagnon de la Libération and marshal of France (Marshall Leclerc) * Pierre Segrétain (1909–1950), commander of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion * Alain de Boissieu (1914–2006), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For A Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement ( ; UMP ) was a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative List of political parties in France, political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullism, Gaullist tradition. During its existence, the UMP was one of the two major party, major parties in French politics along with the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS). In May 2015, the party was succeeded by The Republicans (France), The Republicans. Nicolas Sarkozy, the then president of the UMP, was elected president of France in the 2007 French presidential election, until he was later defeated by PS candidate François Hollande in the 2012 French presidential election, 2012 presidential election. After the November 2012 party congress, the UMP experienced internal fractioning and was plagued by monetary scandals which forced its president Jean-François Copé to resign. After Sarkozy's re-election as UMP president in November 2014, he put forward an amendment to change the name o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rally For The Republic
The Rally for the Republic ( ; RPR ) was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullist politics. It was one of the two major parties in French politics, alongside the Socialist Party. On 21 September 2002, the RPR was merged into the Union for the Presidential Majority, later renamed the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). History The defense of the Gaullist identity against President Giscard d'Estaing (1976–1981) In 1974, the divisions in the Gaullist movement permitted the election of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to the Presidency of the French Republic. Representing the pro-European and pseudo- Orleanist centre-right, he was the first non-Gaullist to become head of state since the beginning of the Fifth Republic in 1958. However, the Gaullist Party remained the main force in parliament and Jacques Chirac was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
