13 Facts About Roland Dumas

Roland Dumas was President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 2000.

Roland Dumas was arrested after organizing a boycott of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by French students.

Roland Dumas lost his seat in the 1958 legislative election, which followed the return of General Charles de Gaulle to power.

Roland Dumas came back into the French National Assembly between 1967 and 1968 as representative of the Correze department.

When President Mitterrand appointed Laurent Fabius as Prime Minister in July 1984, Dumas joined the cabinet as Minister of European Affairs.

Roland Dumas remained in this position until the Socialist defeat in the March 1986 legislative election.

Roland Dumas was the French Foreign Minister during the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the Gulf War, and the negotiations of the Maastricht Treaty.

Roland Dumas was a member of the Emergency Committee for Iraq.

In June 2013, during an appearance on the French news channel La Chaine parlementaire, Roland Dumas claimed that British officials had been preparing for intervention in Syria two years before the start of the Arab Spring.

In May 2007, Roland Dumas received a 12-month jail sentence for funds he mis-appropriated acting as executor of the will of the widow of Alberto Giacometti.

In February 2015, Roland Dumas suggested Prime Minister Manuel Valls was probably acting under Jewish "influence".

Valls declined to comment on Roland Dumas's claims, except to say that Roland Dumas was "a man with a known past and his remarks which have done no credit to the Republic for a long time".

Roland Dumas was married to Theodora Voultepsis, a former Miss Greece from 1951 through 1954, and to Anne-Marie Lillet, whom he married in 1961.