Lucette Michaux-Chevry was the head of the Regional council of the French

France

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 overseas department of Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

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 between 1992 and 2004.

She was born on March 5, 1929, and has completed law

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 studies at Sorbonne

University of Paris

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 university in Paris

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. She has been elected to the post of President in 1992 for the first time, then reelected in January 1993, and in 1995 she was elected Mayor of Basse-Terre

Basse-Terre

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.Michaux-Chevry was elected to the French senate

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  1995. In 1995, French president Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac

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named her his advisor.

In 1998, she entered yet another term in the office of President of Regional council.