The Debré family is a French family including several prominent

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s. The family's ancestor,

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Simon Debré, was born in

Westhoffen Westhoffen (; ; ) 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, who with their successors Hanau-Lichtenberg ...

Alsace Alsace (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,9 ...

. His ancestors came from

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''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, the Robert-Debré Hospital - located in the North-East part of Paris ...

(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 Orientalism, Orientalist works. Biography Debat-Ponsan was born in Toulouse. His younger brother ...

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Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 ...

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

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 Urology, urologist at Hôpital Cochin and a member (Deputy (France), deputy) of the National Assembly of France. He was one of the representatives of the city of Paris, and was ...

(1944-2020), physician and politician │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──>

Jean-Louis Debré Jean-Louis Debré (; 30 September 1944 – 4 March 2025) was a 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.

(1944-2025), politician │ │ │ │ │ └──> Guillaume Debré, journalist │ ├──> Claude Debré (1913- ), physician │ │ x 1942 Philippe Monod-Broca (1918–2006), surgeon │ │ │ └──>

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 Distribution (mathematics), distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awar ...

(1915–2002), mathematician

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