Robert Badinter - Personal Life

Personal Life

Robert Badinter comes from a Bessarabian Jewish family, that immigrated to France in 1921; during the World War II his father was deported from Lyon and perished in the concentration camp Sobibor. He is married to the feminist writer Élisabeth Badinter, the daughter of Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, the founder of Publicis.

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