Background
LECANUET, Jean Adrien François was born on March 4, 1920 in Rouen. Seine-Inférieure. France. Parents: Paul Lecanuet and Marcelle Lecanuet (née Rupert).
LECANUET, Jean Adrien François was born on March 4, 1920 in Rouen. Seine-Inférieure. France. Parents: Paul Lecanuet and Marcelle Lecanuet (née Rupert).
Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle boarding school. Corneille secondary school, Rouen. Degree in Letters, agrégé in Philosophy.
Chief Inspector of information, 1944. Principal Private Secretary to several Ministers (Information, Merchant Navy, National Economy, Interior, Finance). Deputy of the Seine-Maritime, 1951-1955and 1973-1974;Town Councillor, since 1953.
Mayor of Rouen, since 1968. President of the Association of the Mayors of the SeineMaritime, since 1969. Secretary of State to the Presidency of the Council, 1955-1956.
Counsel of the Conseil d’Etat, 1956. General Councillor of the 2nd district of Rouen, since 1958. Official Representative at the cabinet of Pierre Pflimin (Minister of Finance, 1957-1958, President of the Council 1958).
Principal Private Secretary to Pierre Pflimin (Minister of State), 1958-1959. Senator of the Seine-Maritime, 1959-1973 and 1977-1986. President of the Popular Republican Party and of the Democratic Centre of the Senate, 1960-1963.
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Commission of the Senate, 1971-1973. National President of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, 1963-1965. Non elected presidential candidate, 1965.
National President of the Democratic Centre, 1966-1976. Founder, with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, of the reform Movement. 1972; President of the Social Democrats Centre, 1976-1982.
Chairman of the Council of the district of Haute-Normandie, 1974. Chairman of the general council of the Seine-Maritime, since 1974. Lord Chancellor, Minister of Justice, 1976.
Minister of State, responsible for Town and Country Planning, 1976-1977. Senior member of the Council of State, 1977-1987. President of the Union for French Democracy, 1978-1988.
Elected at the European Parliament, 1979 (in the union for France in Europe). Elected VDF-CDS Deputy of SeineMaritime, 1986, ceded seat to Roger Fossé. President of the Foreign Affairs Commission at the National Assembly, 1986.
Elected Centrist Union Senator of the Seine-Maritime, 1986. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces Commission of the Senate. Qualified teacher at Douai, 1942, and Lille, 1943.
Co Founder and Director of the journal France-Forum, 1957.
National Assembly 1951-1955. European Pari. June 1979-1988.
Spouse Jacqueline Pannier, 1984. Children: Françoise, Brigitte, Yves (from previous marriage).