Huguette Bouchardeau

1981 presidential election poster for Huguette Bouchardeau.

Huguette Bouchardeau (born 1935 in Saint-Étienne, Loire) is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher (founder of HB Éditions),^[1] essayist, and biographer.^[2]

Political career

Bouchardeau was a candidate of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in the 1981 presidential election,^[3] receiving 1.1% of the vote,^[4] and National Secretary of the Party^[5] between 1979 and 1981. Bouchardeau also served as Minister of the Environment and Way of Life in the French Socialist Party-led cabinets of Pierre Mauroy (1981–1984) and Laurent Fabius (1984–1986).^[6]

Selected works

• La famille Renoir, 2004
• La grande verrière, 1991
• Le déjeuner, 1998
• Le ministère du possible, 1986
• Les roches rouges: Portrait d'un père, 1997
• Leur père notre père, 1996
• Mes nuits avec Descartes, 2002
• Nathalie Sarraute, 2003
• Pas d'histoire, les femmes, 1977
• Rose Noël, 1992
• Simone Weil, 1995
• Tout le possible, 1981
• Une institurion : La philo. dans l'enseignement du 2ème degré en France 1900–1972, 1975
• Un coin dans leur monde,1980

References

1. "HB Editions en danger". Le Monde diplomatique. 10 May 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
2. "Mothers in fiction, mothers in fact". Harvard Gazette. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
3. "Giscar Mitterrand lead voting". Modesto Bee. 27 April 1981. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
4. "French Presidential election results – 1981". Retrieved 24 February 2010.
5. "Huguette à livres ouverts" (in French). L'Express. 20 January 2000. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
6. "The East Village of Paris". The New York Times. 4 October 1997. Retrieved 24 February 2010.