Robert Vigouroux is a French

French people

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 politician

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 and writer. He was the Mayor of Marseille

Marseille

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, the second largest city in France

France

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, from 1986 to 1995, and a French Senator for the Bouches-du-Rhone

Bouches-du-Rhône

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 from 1989 to 1998.

Biography

Robert Vigouroux was born on March 21, 1923 in Paris

Paris

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. In 1942, he moved to Marseille to work as a doctor in hospitals. He was elected as Mayor of Marseille in 1986, and as Senator in 1989. He later published two volumes of poetry under the nom de plume of Stépan Alexis, and later essays, novels, volumes of paintings and photographs in his real name.