Marie-Françoise Bechtel
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Marie-Françoise Bechtel (born 19 March 1946 in
Coarraze Coarraze (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It lies in the former province of Béarn. Due to its proximity to the town of Nay it is often normally referred to with the double barreled name ...
) is a senior French civil servant and politician. Appointed Councillor of State in 1980, she directed the National School of Administration from 2000 to 2002. She was deputy for Aisne's 4th constituency in the
National Assembly of France The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known ...
from 2012 to 2017.


Biography

Daughter of Gaston Cassiau (1911-1988), a civil servant in public works, and Marie-Christine Sahorès (1907-1999). A teacher and school principal, Bechtel is from
Oloron-Sainte-Marie Oloron-Sainte-Marie (; ; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. History The town was founded by the Romans in the 1st century, then known as ''Illoronensium''. Situated on the Roman way between the ...
, where she passed her baccalaureate in 1963. She reads Jean-Paul Sartre, whom she "adores". After studying philosophy at the
University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...
- where she became involved in
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, she obtained l
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in 1972 and, "follower of the Hegelian dialectic", taught this discipline at the high schools of
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is on the south bank of the Dordogne. History The town was founded in 1076, near a priory where Sainte Foy was worshipped. The t ...
,
Libourne Libourne (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the wine-making capital of northern Gironde and lies near Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Geog ...
and
Chartres Chartres () is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir Departments of France, department in the Centre-Val de Loire Regions of France, region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 1 ...
for five years.


External links


Her page on the site of the National Assembly


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bechtel, Marie-Françoise 21st-century French women politicians Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Living people 1946 births