Gilles de Robien is a notable French politician. In 1989, he was mayor of the city of Amiens. He was Minister of National Education from August 2005 to May 2007. He was reelected mayor of Amiens on March 29, 2007.

François Fillon is the current Prime Minister of France, having been appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. As a member of the UMP party, Fillon became Jean-Pierre Raffarin's Minister of Labour in 2002 and undertook controversial reforms of the 35-hour working week law and of the French retirement system ("Loi Fillon"). He became Minister of Education and Research in 2004 and proposed the much debated Fillon law on Education.

Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, France, …

François Bayrou is a French politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998, and a candidate in the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round, he received 18.5% of votes, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race. (Only the top two candidates participated in the runoff election, which was held on May 6). A former Member of the European Parliament, …

Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie is the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories, and the first woman to lead a major French political party. She is the first woman to become Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories. She was minister of defence in Jacques Chirac's cabinet. Born in Villeneuve-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne, her father was Bernard Marie, the Mayor of Biarritz.

Alain Savary was a French Socialist politician, deputy during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) and who held ministerial functions in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National Education.

Christian Fouchet (November 17, 1911 - August 11, 1974) was a French politician. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was the French Minister of National Education from November 28, 1962 to April 6, 1967.

Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu Martin was a French Socialist leader and cabinet officer. He was born at Saint-Bris (Yonne), and was educated in the law. He held an underprefecture, entered the Council of State, and in 1894 became director under the Minister of the Colonies. He was an unsuccessful senatorial candidate for Yonne in 1897; was elected deputy for Auxerre in that year; was reëlected in 1898 and 1902; and in 1905 became Senator for Yonne.

René Raphaël Viviani was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I. He was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, in French North Africa. When in France he protected the rights of socialists and trade union workers. His parliamentary career began in 1893, when he was elected deputy of the fifth ward in Paris. He retained this office until 1902, when he failed to be reelected, …

Marcellin (or Marcelin) Pierre Eugène Berthelot was a French chemist and politician noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle. He was born at Paris, the son of a doctor. After doing well at school in history and philosophy, he turned to science. <br> <br

William Henry Waddington (December 11, 1826 - January 13, 1894) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister in 1879.

Agénor Bardoux was a French statesman and republican. A native of Bourges, he was established as an advocate in Clermont-Ferrand, and did not hesitate to proclaim his Republican sympathies. In 1871 he was elected deputy of the French National Assembly, and re-elected in 1876 and in 1877. In the chamber he was president of the group of the centre-left, standing strongly for the republic but against anti-clericalism. In the republican chamber elected after May 16, 1877, …

Gabriel Guist'hau, was a French politician (born in Saint-Pierre in Réunion in 1863, and died in Nantes, France in 1931). Guist'hau left Réunion for Nantes to study law there, and was elected the mayor of Nantes in 1908. He went on to become a deputy to the Assemblée nationale from 1910 to 1924. He was minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in 1912, minister of Commerce and Industry in 1913, and finally, minister of the Navy in 1921.

Richard Descoings is a French civil servant. He is currently serving as the Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: "Institut d'études politiques de Paris"), and as such as the Chief Administrator of the National Foundation of Political Science ("Fondation nationale des sciences politiques", FNSP). These two entities are collectively referred to as Sciences Po (see Use of Sciences Po), …