Born: April 17, 2021 at Ablon-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) Marr.: Aug. 19, 1938, to Henriette Tugler (1 child: Marie-Agnès, widow of Jean-Pierre Joussain)
Died: December 9, 2021

Education
Lycées Louis-le-Grand et Saint-Louis (Paris) Paris Faculty of Law

Diplomas
Degrees: Licencié en droit (Bachelor of Law) Diploma of the Ecole libre des Sciences politiques (political science) Ingénieur civil des Mines (engineering)

Career
1939/1941
Rédacteur principal (junior executive officer), then deputy-head of section at the Central Administration of the Ministry of Finance.

July 20, 2021
Chairman, Ministry of Finance Liberation Committee.

Jan. 1, 1945
Head of Social Services, Ministry of Finance.

1945
Mayor of Ablon-sur-Seine.

Jan. 1, 1946
Administrateur civil de 2ème classe (administrative officer), Ministry of Finance.

June 26-Nov. 28, 1946
Chef de Cabinet (Head of Private Office) to the Minister of Finance (Robert Schuman).

December 8, 2021
Member of the first Council of the Republic.

1946/1948
Rapporteur général (rapporteur-general) for the Finance Commission of the Council of the Republic.

July 16, 2021
Administrateur civil de 1ère classe (administrative officer), Ministry of Finance.

Sept. 5/10, 1948
Sec. of State for Finance and Economic Affairs (Govt. of Robert Schuman).

Sept. 11/Nov.20, 1948
Sec. of State for the Budget (Govt. of Henri Queuille).

Nov. 10, 1948
Candidate in the Senatorial elections.

Nov. 26, 1948/April 1950
Commissioner-General for German and Austrian Affairs

Jan. 31, 1950/1952
French delegate and President, International Ruhr Authority.

May 18, 2021
Elected Senator for Seine-et-Oise department as member of the Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP - Popular Republican Movement) Parliamentary group.

July 10, 1952/1958
Member, Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community. President of Transport Commission. (1954/1957) Chairman, Joint Assembly's Common Market Commission.

Nov. 28, 1953
President, Higher Trade Council.

Feb. 19, 1954
Administrateur de classe exceptionnelle (Special administrator), Ministry of Finance.

1954/1957
President of the Senate Group of the MRP.

Oct. 1955/April 1956

President, Franco-German Governmental Commission for the Canalisation of the Moselle River.

Nov. 7, 1957/June 9, 1958
Sec. of State for the Armed Forces (Naval) (Govt. of Félix Gaillard).

Mar. 19, 1958/Dec. 20, 1977
Member, Assembly of the European Communities.

June 8, 2021
Re-elected Senator (MRP) for Seine-et-Oise.

Feb. 1959 / May 1962
Member, National Bureau of the MRP.

Feb. 1959
Member, executive commission of the MRP.

March 1959 / March 1966

President, Christian Democrat Group in the Assembly of the European Communities.

April 16, 2021
Re-elected Senator (MRP) for Seine-et-Oise.

1959/1960
President of the Senate Group of the MRP.

March 7, 2021 / March 11, 1969
President, Assembly of the European Communities.

Dec. 4, 1967 / Jan. 1969
President, Euro-African Parliamentary Assembly ("CEE-EAMA": African and Madagascan States Associated With the EEC).

Sept. 22, 1968
Re-elected Senator for Val-de-Marne - member of the Union Centriste des Démocrates pour le Progrès (UCDP - Centrist union of democrats for progress) Parliamentary group.

Oct. 3, 1968 / Oct. 1, 1992
President, Senate (re-elected 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986 and 1989).

Jan. 1969
Vice-President, Euro-African Parliamentary Assembly.

April 20 / June 20, 1969
Acting President of the French Republic.

June 1/15, 1969
Candidate in the French Presidential elections.

March 1971
Re-elected Mayor of Ablon-sur-Seine.

April 2 / May 19, 1974
Acting President of the French Republic.

June 1974 / Oct. 1983
President, Association of Mayors of France.

March 1977 / March 1983
Re-elected Mayor of Ablon-sur-Seine.

June 1977
Honorary Founding President, Association des Libertés (Association for Freedom).

Sept. 25, 1977
Re-elected Senator (Govt. Majority) for Val-de-Marne.

April 1980
President, Association For Research and Information on Development Aid (ARIAD).

Sept. 28, 1986
Re-elected Senator for Val-de-Marne (Union Centriste - UC - group).

Oct. 2, 1992
Did not stand for re-election to Presidency of the Senate.

Functions
- Honorary Chairman (1980), Cross-Bench Senators belonging to the LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism).
- Honorary Chairman (1983), Association of Mayors of France.
- Member, Honorary Committee, French Organization for the European Movement.
- Vice-President, Association for the Study of European Issues.
- Member, Honorary Committee, European Centre for Economic and Trade Research (CEREC).
- Member, Commission for International Exchanges in the Communal Domain.
- Member, Commission for the Study of Transport in the Common Market.
- Member, Patronage Committee of the European Centre for Observation by Opinion Polls (CEROS).
- Member, Steering Committee of the Association française pour le conseil des communes d'Europe (French Association for Advice to the Communes of Europe).
- Member, Patronage Committee of the "Général Pierre Koenig" Foundation.
- Member, Standing Committee of the Higher Council for Tourism. - Member, Board of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe.
- Member, Board of the Robert Schuman Foundation.
- Founder member, "Economie et Progrès" Association.
- Member, Honorary Committee of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA).
- President, Association for Research and Information on Development Aid (ARIAD) and of the Association for Joint International Promotion.

Publication
"Trois fois Président" (1993).

Decorations
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
- Croix de Guerre (1939-1945)
- Médaille de la Résistance
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Grand Cross of the Oak Crown of Luxembourg
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

Distinctions  
- Grande médaille de vermeil de la Ville de Paris
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Tel Aviv
- Robert Schuman Prize (1971)
- Louis Weiss Prize (1984)
- Louise Michel Prize (1984).

Source : Sénat