Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, 153rd Prime Minister of France (born 1915)

Jacques Chaban-Delmas

82nd Prime Minister of France

Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département between 1946 and 1997.

List of prime ministers of France

The head of the government of France has been called the prime minister of France since 1959, when Michel Debré became the first officeholder appointed under the Fifth Republic. During earlier periods of history, the head of government of France was known by different titles. As…