Politicians
See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France
- Robert Badinter, lawyer, statesman and anti death sentence activist
- François Bayrou, UDF party leader
- Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister
- José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist
- Aristide Briand
- Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president
- Georges Clemenceau
- Gaspard de Coligny
- Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
- Jacques Delors
- Félix Faure, President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress
- Charles de Gaulle, World War II general, commander of the Free French Forces, heroic French president
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- François Guizot, Prime Minister
- Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist
- François Hollande, PS (Socialist Party) leader, current French president
- Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist
- Lionel Jospin, socialist, former prime minister
- Bernard Kouchner, founder of Médecins du Monde
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential candidate
- Louis Lépine, Paris police chief, governor of Algiers, founder of the Concours Lépine
- Émile Loubet, President of France who was elected in 1899, after the death of Félix Faure
- Henri-Auguste Lozé,Paris police chief, senator of the Third Republic
- Jean-Claude Martinez, lawyer and European deputy
- Pierre Mendès France, lawyer and statesman, prime minister
- Honoré Mirabeau
- François Mitterrand, lawyer and statesman, president
- Jean Monnet
- Philippe Pétain, head of Vichy France
- Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France
- Marthe Richard
- Ségolène Royal, politician, Socialist party, presidential candidate
- Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, President of the right wing party
- Victor Schoelcher, anti-slavery activist
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- Maurice Thorez
- Jacques Toubon
- Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
- Dominique Voynet, physician and Green party politician
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
““Mother” is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, “Why isn’t life turning out the way we want it?””
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
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