Background
POPEREN, Jean was born on January 9, 1925 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. Son of Maurice Poperen and Marie Graffeuil.
POPEREN, Jean was born on January 9, 1925 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. Son of Maurice Poperen and Marie Graffeuil.
Lycee d’Angers, Lycee de Rennes, Lycee Louis-leGrand and Faculte des Lettres, Paris.
Assistant lecturer in History, University of Paris 1960, Maitre de conferences 1986. Founder, Tribune (communist group) 1958. Director Executive Bureau, Parti Socialiste since 1971.
Socialist Deputy from Rhone 1973, reelected 1988.
Delegate of First Secretary of Parti Socialiste for industrial politics and land manitoba, later Propaganda Secretary since 1975. National Secretary for Coordination, Parti Socialiste.
Minister responsible for Relations with Parliament. since 1988.
Disagreeing with the PSU"s party line, he founded the Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs (UGCS). The UGCS participated in the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left and joined the new Socialist Party at the party"s second national congress.
French Communist Party. Union of the Socialist Left. Socialist Party]
Poperen joined the Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party)) at 18, and was also a member of the Union of Communist Students.
He left the Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party) after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and became a founding member of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in 1960.
Poperen, a member of the party"s left-wing, was the party"s second-in-command from 1981 to 1987.
Married Nathalie Valcourt in 1960.