Xavier de Villepin

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Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born March 14, 1926 in Brussels - † October 30, 2014 ), also known as Xavier de Villepin , was a French politician . He was a high-ranking civil servant and French senator for the center party UDF and right- wing UMP for 18 years . He is the father of the former Prime Minister of France , Dominique de Villepin .

Life

Xavier de Villepin is a graduate of the renowned French elite university École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), and later also the Harvard Business School . During the Second World War in 1944 he was involved in the Résistance , the French resistance against the German occupiers. As a French civil servant, he spent many years abroad. From 1950 to 1979 he served successively in French Algeria , Australia , the French protectorate of Morocco , Venezuela and the USA . In 1960 he became a member of the Union des français de l'étranger ("Association of French Abroad") and in 1979 second vice-president of this association.

In 1986, de Villepin became a member of the French Senate for the French living outside France, in 1993 chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces. In 2002, after his son Dominique de Villepin was nominated for the post of Foreign Minister, he resigned from this post. In 2004, Xavier de Villepin did not reapply for a mandate as senator. He died on October 30, 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. Homage to Xavier de Villepin. In: Paris Match, November 13, 2014 (French, accessed February 17, 2015).