2024-08-15 13:09:02
The Prince of Mitterrandie is gone. Former president of the National Assembly and former minister, Louis Mermaz died at his home in Essonne, at the age of 92, it has been announced on social networks The president of the branch of Essonne, François Durovray. “Louis Mermaz, former minister, leader of the National Assembly and a prominent figure in political life, has left us at his home in Essonne. His commitment to the service of our country has marked his history,” hello François Durovray, joined by the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, who paid tribute to him “A sharp mind [qui] go with us in all our struggles, until these last days, during the congressional campaign.”
Of all François Mitterrand’s traveling companions, it was the faithful of the faithful who served him to the end, to the point of denying any claim of inventory over his two seven-year terms.
Born on August 20, 1931 in Paris, young Louis would learn his only background in life. The truth that will be revealed in his memories, I have to tell you (Odile Jacob, 2013). His father, Louis de Chappedelaine, was a minister of the Third Estate whose name was not born because, being married, he did not marry his mother. In college, this “Good little Christian”, admirer of Napoleon, dreams of being viceroy. At 14, he picked up a column a week Norman Awakening, where he will later publish, as an activist for decolonization, research on Algeria.
Louis Mermaz was preparing for his historical composition at La Sorbonne. The associate professor, passionate about Madame de Maintenon and the Hohenzollern family, the subject of two books, taught for fifteen years, first at the Lycée du Mans, then at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and finally at the Faculty of Letters in Clermont-Ferrand. Coming from a middle-class background, he married Annie Bernard d’Arbigny “In a jacket, gray top hat in hand”, in Saint-François-Xavier church in Paris.
The character of white and hard socialist
In the spring of 1954, he crossed paths with François Mitterrand. This meeting will change the course of your life. “I judge, you write that it is not easy to approach him, as he is around him as many devotees, among those who move without thinking. pour. » From then on, your destiny will be linked to that of your great man. He joined him in 1956, in a small football club, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR). He ran under this symbol in the legislative elections in Orne, but failed three times, in 1956, 1958 and 1962.
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