Serge Godard is a French politician.

Born in Gerzat

Gerzat

Gerzat is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-References:*...

, Puy-de-Dôme

Puy-de-Dôme

Puy-de-Dôme is a department in the centre of France named after the famous dormant volcano, the Puy-de-Dôme.Inhabitants were called Puydedomois until December 2005...

, he studied in Clermont-Ferrand, Sedan, Lille

Lille

Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

 then Paris and in 1966, he received the diploma of physics doctorate. Between 1971 and 1976, he was the headmaster of "observatoire de physique" in Clermont-Ferrand and become a professor in Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...

 University until 1996.

Since 4 July 1997, he has been the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...

, just after Roger Quilliot

Roger Quilliot

Roger Quilliot was a French politician. He served as Housing Minister from May 22nd to June 23rd 1981, under former French President François Mitterand. He was also a Socialist member of the French Senate for the Puy-de-Dôme from 1974 to 1981, then from 1983 to April 1998, and again from September...

resigned this post.