Flashcards: French Ministers of National Education

Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 1766 – 16 September 1834) was a French playwright.

Viscount Gilles de Robien (French pronunciation: ​[ʒil də ʁɔˈbjɛ̃]; born 10 April 1941 in Cocquerel, Somme) is a French politician and former government minister.

Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (French pronunciation: ​[dʒakˈlɑ̃ɡ]; born 2 September 1939) is a French politician.

François Charles Amand Fillon (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃.swa ʃaʁl amɑ̃ fi.jɔ̃]; born 4 March 1954) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 17 May 2007 to 16 May 2012.

Joseph Chaumié (17 March 1849 – 19 July 1919) was a French politician, Senator for Lot-et-Garonne from 1897 until his death.

Albert-Pierre Sarraut (French: [albɛʁ saʁo]; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.

René Goblet (French pronunciation: ​[ʁəne ɡɔblɛ]; 26 November 1828 – 13 September 1905) was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.

Édouard Marie Herriot (French: [edwaʁ ɛʁjo]; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.

André Marie (3 December 1897 – 12 June 1974) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic in 1948.

William Henry Waddington (11 December 1826 – 13 January 1894) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister in 1879, and as an Ambassador of France.

Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (6 October 1801, Saint-Omer – 16 March 1888) was a French statesman.

Jules François Camille Ferry (French: [ʒyl fɛʁi]; 5 April 1832 – 17 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican.

Édouard Lockroy (18 July 1838 – 22 November 1913) was a French politician.

Jean-Pierre Chevènement (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʃəvɛnmɑ̃]; born 9 March 1939) is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s and who was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election.

Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani (French pronunciation: ​[ʁəne vivjaˈni]; 8 November 1863 – 7 September 1925) was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I.

Luc-Marie Chatel (French: [lyk.ma.ʁi ʃa.tɛl]) is a French politician born on August 15, 1964 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Pierre Sudreau (13 May 1919 – 22 January 2012) was a French politician.

René Haby (9 October 1919, in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe – 6 February 2003) was a French politician.

Édouard Gustave Depreux (31 October 1898 – 16 October 1981) was a French socialist journalist, essayist, and politician of the French Fourth Republic; he was born in Viesly (département of Nord) and died in Paris.

François-Xavier Ortoli (16 February 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a French Gaullist politician and businessman.

Jean Berthoin (January 12, 1895 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise – February 25, 1979 in Paris) was a French Politician.

Xavier Darcos (born 14 July 1947) is a French politician, scholar, civil servant and former Minister of Labour.

Charles Augustin Daniel Vincent (31 March 1874 – 3 May 1946), known as Daniel-Vincent, was a French teacher and politician.

Jacques Chevalier (13 March 1882 – 19 April 1962) was a French philosopher.

Jules Abadie (12 August 1876 – 10 August 1953) was a French politician and surgeon in Oran, French Algeria, acting as a member of the Comité Français de Libération Nationale (CFLN).

Joseph Fontanet (9 February 1921, Frontenex, Savoie – 2 February 1980) was a French politician.

René Marie Alphonse Charles Capitant (19 August 1901 in La Tronche, Isère – 23 May 1970 in Suresnes) was a French lawyer and politician.

Claude (Jean) Allègre (French pronunciation: ​[klodaˈlɛɡʁ]; born 31 March 1937, Paris) is a French politician and scientist.

René Billères (29 August 1910 in Ger, Hautes-Pyrénées – 2 October 2004 in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées) was a French politician.

Michel Auguste Adolphe Landry (29 September 1874 – 30 August 1956) was a French demographer and politician.

Christian Beullac, (born 29 November 1923 in Marseillan (Hérault) – died 16 June 1986) was a French politician.

Christian Fouchet (17 November 1911 – 11 August 1974) was a French politician.

Albert Rivaud (French: [ʁivo]; May 14, 1876 – September 15, 1955) was a French philosopher and classical scholar.

Narcisse Parant (5 February 1794 – 4 March 1842) was a French lawyer who was briefly Minister of Public Education in 1839.

André Mallarmé (6 August 1877 – 8 April 1956) was a French politician.

Yvon Delbos (7 May 1885 – 15 November 1956) was a French Radical-Socialist Party politician and minister.

Alain Peyrefitte (French pronunciation: ​[alɛ̃ pɛʁfit]; 26 August 1925 – 27 November 1999) was a French scholar and politician.

Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon (French pronunciation: ​[vɛ̃.sɑ̃ pɛ.jɔ̃] ; born 7 July 1960 in Suresnes) was Minister for Education in the French Government.

Henri Gabriel Guist'hau, was a French politician (15 September 1863, Saint-Pierre, Réunion – 27 November 1931, Nantes, France).

Anatole de Monzie (22 November 1876, Bazas, Gironde – 11 January 1947, Paris) was a French administrator, encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie française), political figure and scholar.

André Boulloche (7 September 1915 in Paris – 16 March 1978) was a French politician who belonged to the Socialist Party.

Antoine François Henri Lefebvre de Vatimesnil (19 December 1789 – 10 October 1860) was a French lawyer and politician.

Benoît Hamon (French: [bə.nwa a.mɔ̃]; born 26 June 1967) is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (“PS”), part of the Party of European Socialists.

Louis Joxe (16 September 1901 – 6 April 1991) was a French statesman, judge and politician.

Eugène Spuller (8 December 1835 – 23 July 1896) was a French politician and writer.

François Albert (4 April 1877 – 23 November 1933) was a French journalist and politician.

Lucien Paye (born in Vernoil-le-Fourrier, Maine-et-Loire on 18 June 1907 – died 1972) was a former French politician.

Pierre-Olivier Lapie (2 April 1901, Rennes – 10 March 1994) was a French essayist and novelist.

Jacques Bordeneuve (August 28, 1908 Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot – January 31, 1981 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French politician.

Luc Ferry (French: [fɛʁi]; born January 1, 1951) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of secular humanism.