Everything about Xavier De Villepin totally explained
Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born
March 14,
1926 in
Brussels,
Belgium), simply known as
Xavier de Villepin, is a former high ranking civil servant of
France, and a former
French senator from the center-right
UMP party (and before that from the more centrist
UDF party). He is the father of the former
Prime Minister of France,
Dominique de Villepin.
Biography
Xavier de Villepin graduated from the renowned French business school
HEC, and later from the
Harvard Business School. He took part in the
French Resistance in
1944. As a French civil servant, he spent many years overseas. From
1950 until
1979, he served in chronological order in
French Algeria, in
Australia, in the French
protectorate of
Morocco, in
Venezuela, and finally in the
United States. He became a member of the Association of French Citizens Abroad (
Union des Français de l'Étranger) in
1960, and its 2nd vice-president in
1979.
Xavier de Villepin was elected to the
French senate in
1986 by the constituency of the French citizens living abroad, and remained a French senator until September
2004, when he chose not to run for a third term. In
1993 he was elected chairman of the French Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Armed Forces (
Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées). He resigned from the committee in
2002 following the appointment of his son Dominique de Villepin as
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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