Huguette Bouchardeau is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher

Publishing

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 (founder of HB Éditions), essayist, and biographer

Biography

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Political career

Bouchardeau was a candidate of the Unified Socialist Party

Unified Socialist Party (France)

The Unified Socialist Party was a socialist political party in France, founded on April 3, 1960. It was originally led by Édouard Depreux , and by Michel Rocard .- History :...

 (PSU) in the 1981 presidential election

French presidential election, 1981

The French presidential election of 1981 took place on 10 May 1981, giving the presidency of France to François Mitterrand, the first Socialist president of the Fifth Republic....

, receiving 1.1% of the vote, and National Secretary of the Party between 1979 and 1981. Bouchardeau also served as Minister of the Environment and Way of Life

Minister of the Environment (France)

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 in the French Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

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-led cabinets

Prime Minister of France

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 of Pierre Mauroy

Pierre Mauroy

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 (1981–1984) and Laurent Fabius

Laurent Fabius

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 (1984–1986).

Selected works

• La famille Renoir , 2004
• La grande verrière, 1991
• Le déjeuner, 1998
• Le ministère du possible, 1986
• Les roches rouges: Portrait d'un père, 1997
• Leur père notre père, 1996
• Mes nuits avec Descartes
  René Descartes
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  , 2002
• Nathalie Sarraute
  Nathalie Sarraute
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  , 2003
• Pas d'histoire, les femmes, 1977
• Rose Noël, 1992
• Simone Weil
  Simone Weil
  Simone Weil , was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.-Biography:Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, and her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was...
  
  , 1995
• Tout le possible, 1981
• Une institurion : La philo. dans l'enseignement du 2ème degré en France 1900–1972, 1975
• Un coin dans leur monde,1980