Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (born 2 September 1939) is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He currently serves in the National Assembly from the sixth district of Pas-de-Calais.
Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges, and is of Jewish ancestry. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in publi...
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Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (born 2 September 1939) is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He currently serves in the National Assembly from the sixth district of Pas-de-Calais.
Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges, and is of Jewish ancestry. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, France, was director of the Nancy University Theatre from 1963 to 1972 and then director of the Palais de Chaillot Théâtre from 1972 to 1974. At the same time he was a professor of international law from 1971 to 1981. He married Monique Buczynski in 1961 and they have two daughters.
Lang entered politics as a Socialist member of French National Assembly from Paris in 1977. He is best known for...
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