Jean-Pierre Chevènement
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Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s best known for his candidacy in the 2002 French presidential election. After serving as mayor of Belfort,
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Jean-Pierre Chevènement at the Salon du livre in Paris, 23 March 2014.
Gaullism
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Gaullism is a French political stance based on the thoughts and actions of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic
Jean-Pierre Chevènement
…Chevènement's idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism has led to comparison with the late British politician Peter Shore. He describes his Eurosceptic and Gaullist position as "republican". He was Mayor of Belfort from 1983 to 2008 and was a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1973 to 2002. He joined the French…
Charles de Gaulle, after whom Gaullism is named
Charles de Gaulle in 1961, then the French president