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Socialist Party
The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is the largest left-wing political party in France. It replaced the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1969.
A social democratic and democratic socialist party, PS first won power in 1981, when its candidate François Mitterrand was...
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Alexandre Millerand
Alexandre Millerand (10 February 1859 - 7 April 1943) was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924 and Prime Minister of France 20 January to 23 September 1920. His participation in Waldeck...
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Aristide Briand
Aristide Briand (28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served several terms as Prime Minister of France and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique of a bourgeois family. He attended the Nantes Lycée,...
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Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson (born on 27 January 1934 as Édith Campion in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris) is a French politician. She was the first and so far only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France.
Cresson was well known for making...
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Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (born 20 August 1946) is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic....
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Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French Socialist politician of Ukrainian origin. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.
Pierre Bérégovoy was born in Déville-lès-Rouen, Seine-Maritime to...
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Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier (17 March 1888, La Rochelle - 14 October 1961) was a prominent French politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947. On 10 July...
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Vincent Auriol
Vincent Jules Auriol (27 August, 1884 – 1 January, 1966) was a French politician who served as the first President of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. He also served as interim President of the Provisional Government (head of state and...
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François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand ( fʁɑ̃swa mɔʁis mitɛˈʁɑ̃ (help·info), 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May...
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Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France, during the third "cohabitation", under Jacques Chirac, from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was the French Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the...
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Ségolène Royal
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...
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Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy (born 5 July 1928) is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984 and also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001. Mauroy is currently emeritus mayor of Lille.
Mauroy was...
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Alain Vivien
Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938, in Melun) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (from 1998 to 2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to...
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Jean-Paul Huchon
Jean-Paul Huchon (born July 29, 1946, in Paris, France) is a civil administrator and French politician. Mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine from 1994 to 2001, he is the President of the regional council for Île-de-France since 1998.
Huchon was a key...
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Pierre Joxe
Pierre Joxe (born November 28, 1934 in Paris) is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of France since 2001.
Graduate of the Ecole nationale d'administration, he entered in the Court of Audit of...
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Joseph Paul-Boncour
Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (4 August 1873 - 28 March 1972) was a French politician of the Third Republic.
Born in Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, Paul-Boncour received a law degree from the University of Paris and became active in the labor...
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Edmond Hervé
Edmond Hervé (born December 3, 1942, in La Bouillie in the Côtes-d'Armor) is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party and French senator since 2008.
He was the mayor of Rennes from 1977 to 2008. He succeeded Henri Fréville.
His...
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Jean-Louis Tourenne
Jean Louis Tourenne (born 1944) is a French politician and the current President of the general council of Ille-et-Vilaine. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
He became the first PS President of the general council of Ille-et-Vilaine since 1848...
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Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the first person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission (between January 1985 and December 1994).
In the 1940s–1960s, Delors held...
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Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard (born 23 August 1930) is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum...
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Guy Mollet
Guy Mollet (French pronunciation: [ɡi moje]; 31 December 1905 - 3 October 1975) was a French Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister in 1956-1957.
He was...
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Robert Badinter
Robert Badinter (born 30 March 1928) is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he served as Minister of Justice and...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, often referred to as DSK, (born 25 April 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS). He was selected as the new Managing Director of the...
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Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault (born 25 January 1950 in Maulévrier, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes and President of the Socialist Party group in the French National Assembly....
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Marx Dormoy
Marx Dormoy (1 August1888—26 July 1941) was a French socialist politician, noted for his opposition to the far right.
Born in Montluçon, he was elected mayor of his native town in 1926, and representative of the Section française de l'Internationale...
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Pascal Lamy
Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade. Lamy is Honorary President of Paris-based think tank Notre Europe.
Born...
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Madeleine Pelletier
Madeleine Pelletier (May 18, 1874 – December 29, 1939) was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist.
Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between skull size and intelligence...
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Alfred Léon Gérault-Richard
Alfred Léon Gérault, known as Gérault-Richard (1860-1911), was a French journalist and socialist politician, born at Bonnétable (in the départment of Sarthe) of a peasant family.
He began life as a working upholsterer, first at Le Mans, then at...
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Alain Rousset
Alain Rousset (born February 16, 1951 in Chazelles-sur-Lyon, Loire) is the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde.
He was elected to...
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Marceau Pivert
Marceau Pivert (1895–1958) was a French schoolteacher, trade unionist, Socialist militant and journalist. He was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud.
Active in the Syndicat National des Instituteurs (SNI), a staunch supporter...
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Élisabeth Guigou
Élisabeth Guigou (born Élisabeth Vallier, 6 August 1946, Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French Socialist politician.
After attending ENA, France's elite graduate school of public affairs, she worked on Jacques Delors' staff in 1982 before being hired by...
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Jean Glavany
Jean Glavany (born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, May 14, 1949) is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS) and former Minister.
From 1981 to 1988, he was head of cabinet of President François Mitterrand (PS). He was then Minister of...
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Léo Lagrange
Léo Lagrange (born Bourg (Gironde), on 28 November 1900 - died Évergnicourt, on 9 June 1940) was a French Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisure during the Popular Front (1936-1938). A member of the Éclaireurs de...
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Daniel Goldberg
Daniel Goldberg (24 August 1965, Saint-Denis, France) is a French Socialist politician. This mathematics teacher was elected deputy for the first time in 2007. He's elected in city of La Courneuve.
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Martin Malvy
Martin Malvy (born February 24, 1936, in Paris) is a French politcian. He is a member of the Socialist Party. In 1992, he was the spokesmen of the French government. Between 1992 and 1993, he was Minister of Budget. He is president of the Région...
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Louis Le Pensec
Louis Le Pensec (born January 8, 1937, in Mellac) is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party. Between 1973 and 1997, he was a member of the Parliament. Since September 27, 1998, he is a Senator of Finistère.
From 1988 and 1991, he...
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Henri Nallet
Henri Nallet (born on January 6, 1939 in Bergerac, Dordogne) is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
He was twice Minister of Agriculture between 1985 and 1986, and between 1988 and 1990. He also was the Minister of Justice...
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Daniel Delaveau
Daniel Delaveau (born December 22, 1952 in Châlette-sur-Loing, Loiret) is a French politician and incumbent Mayor of Rennes. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
He was born in a working-class family, and was active in Catholic youth organizations...
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