1. Jean Adrien Francois Lecanuet was a French centrist politician.
13 Facts About Jean Lecanuet
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Jean Lecanuet received his diploma at the age of 22, becoming the youngest agrege in France.
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Jean Lecanuet participated in the Second World War French Resistance movement.
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Jean Lecanuet then married Denise Paillard with whom he had three children.
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Under the Fourth Republic, Jean Lecanuet held ministerial posts numerous times and was a member of the Christian-Democratic Popular Republican Movement.
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Jean Lecanuet became senator from Seine-Maritime in 1959 and was president of the MRP from 1963 to 1965.
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Jean Lecanuet advocated modernity and European integration and declared to represent a third way between Gaullism on the one hand and the Socialist and Communist Left on the other hand.
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Jean Lecanuet obtained 3,777,120 votes in the election's first round, forcing Charles de Gaulle to compete in a second round against Francois Mitterrand.
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Jean Lecanuet replaced the ageing MRP by the Democratic Centre, integrating the liberal-conservative National Centre of Independents and Peasants.
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In 1972, Lecanuet founded the Reforming Movement with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.
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Jean Lecanuet was elected deputy of Seine-Maritime and actively participated in the 1974 presidential election campaign in support of Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
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Jean Lecanuet was Minister of Justice in Jacques Chirac's first cabinet.
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Jean Lecanuet dies of cancer on 22 February 1993 at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.