Marie-Ségolène Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal, French West Africa), known as Ségolène Royal ( seɡɔlɛn ʁwajal (help·info)), is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party. The first woman in France to be nominated by a major party, she was the Socialist candidate in th...
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Marie-Ségolène Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal, French West Africa), known as Ségolène Royal ( seɡɔlɛn ʁwajal (help·info)), is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party. The first woman in France to be nominated by a major party, she was the Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy on 6 May, 2007. On 28 November 2008, Royal declared implicitly her candidacy for President of France in 2012.
Ségolène Royal was born in the military base of Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal on 22 September 1953, the daughter of Hélène Dehaye and Jacques Royal, a former artillery officer and aide to the mayor of Chamagne (Vosges).
Her parents had eight children in nine years: Marie-Odette, Marie-Nicole, Gérard, Marie-Ségolène, Antoine, Paul, Henri and Sigisbert.
After high school, Marie...
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