Background
DILIGENT, André Félix Edouard was born on May 10, 1919 in Roubaix, Nord, France. Parents: Victor Diligent and Adrienne Diligent (née Rossel).
DILIGENT, André Félix Edouard was born on May 10, 1919 in Roubaix, Nord, France. Parents: Victor Diligent and Adrienne Diligent (née Rossel).
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires School, Roubaix. Faculty of Law, Lille, first degree.
Town Councillor for Roubaix, since 1947. Deputy Mayor, 1949; Deputy Mouvement Républicain Populaire for Nord, 8th constituency: Roubaix Nord et Ouest, 1958-1962. Member of television Committee, French Broadcasting Corporation, 1965.
Administrator of Northern Region Radio and Television Association. Senator for Nord, 1965-1974, re-elected 1983, registered member of Centrist Union Group. Chairman of Centrist Union Group, 1974.
Member of Social Affairs Committee. Member of consultative Parliamentary Delegation to French Broadcasting Corporation (ORTF), 1972. Vice-Chairman of Deomocratic Centre, 1973, then Vice-Chairman, 1976, and Secretary-General of Social Democratic Centre, 1977-1983.
Member of European Parliament (Union for France in Europe Group), 1979-1984. Mayor of Roubaix, 1983- Regional Councillor for Nord-Pas-de-Calais, since 1986. Member of FranceIsraël Association, 1986.
Member of National Council for Prevention of Delinquency, since 1986. Chairman of National Commission for Social Improvement of Urban Districts. Since 1987; barrister, Roubaix, since 1944.
Chairman of board of directors, NordEclair Edition, company publishing the daily newspaper Nord-Eclair, 1979.
Spouse Danielle Lesaffre. Children: Anne.