Jacques Fournier (government official)
Jacques Fournier | |
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![]() Fournier in 2015 | |
Secrétaire général du Gouvernement | |
In office 10 July 1982 – 26 March 1986 | |
Preceded by | Marceau Long |
Succeeded by | Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc |
Personal details | |
Born | 5 May 1929 Épinal, France |
Died | 14 August 2021 | (aged 92)
Political party | PS |
Jacques Fournier (5 May 1929 – 14 August 2021) was a French government official.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Fournier spent his childhood and studies in French Algeria. He was a student at the École nationale d'administration from 1951 to 1953 and subsequently served as a legal advisor at the French Embassy in Morocco from 1961 to 1964. He then served as a Conseiller d'État and was on Plan Commission. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the French Republic , then Secrétaire général du Gouvernement from 1982 to 1986 before being relieved of his duties by Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc.[3] He then served as President of Gaz de France from 1986 to 1988. He subsequently served as President of SNCF from 24 August 1988 to 1 March 1993.[4]
A political activist, Fournier became a member of the Socialist Party following the Epinay Congress and joined the Centre d'études, de recherches et d'éducation socialiste .
Jacques Fournier died on 14 August 2021 at the age of 92.[5]
Publications
[edit]- Politique de l'éducation (1972)
- Traité du social (1976)
- Le Pouvoir du social (1979)
- Le Travail gouvernemental (1987)[6]
- Le Train, l’Europe et le service public (1993)
- Critique de la raison communautaire (1996)
- Livre blanc sur le dialogue social dans la fonction publique (2002)
- Itinéraire d’un fonctionnaire engagé (2008)
- L'Économie des besoins (2013)
References
[edit]- ^ Fournier, Jacques (1929-....) (in French).
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ignored (help) - ^ "Un homme sincère qui a bien servi la République". Le MRC 53 (in French). 5 August 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Favier, Pierre (1991). La décennie Mitterrand. 2, Les épreuves : 1984-1988 (in French). Paris: Editions Points. ISBN 978-2-7578-5799-1. OCLC 941084320.
- ^ "« Itinéraire d'un fonctionnaire engagé » par Jacques Fournier, Éditions Dalloz-Sirey, 2008". blog.lemonde.fr (in French). 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Décès de Jacques Fournier, défenseur convaincu du service public, ancien président de la SNCF". Le Figaro (in French). 15 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Chapsal, Jacques (1988). "Fournier (Jacques) - Le travail gouvernemental [compte-rendu]". Persée (in French). 38 (1): 131–132.