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Biography of Laurent Fabius
Name: Laurent Fabius
Birth Date: August 20, 1946
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, prime minister, author
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (born 1946) was the Socialist wunderkind of French politics in the 1980s. He was not yet forty when President François Mitterrand named him prime minister in 1984 and gave him primary responsibility for producing an economic recovery.Laurent Fabius was born on August 20, 1946, in Paris. Like many French politicians of the left as well as the right, he was a product of an elite, rigorous schooling. He was a graduate of institutions that are training grounds for academics (Ècole Normale Supérieure), bureaucrats (Ècole National de l'Administration) and future leaders (Institut d'Etudes Politiques). Like most of the leading lights of French politics at that time, he began his career as a civil servant with Council of State. In fact, as prime minister he was still technically on leave from the council, to which he could conceivably return when he left office.Rising StarWhile still in …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…stalled his political career and presidential ambitions indefinitely in the public eye. He remains a strong force within his party, however: he continued as president of Haute Normandie's regional council, was again re-elected to the National Assembly in 1993, and in 1995 was named leader of the Socialists in the National Assembly. On March 9, 1999, Fabius was acquitted of all charges related to the HIV-contaminated blood scandal. He is the author of several books, including La France inégale (1975), Le Coeur de Futur (1985), and Les Blessures de la Vérité (1995). Further Reading Little is available in English specifically regarding Fabius. None of his books have been translated into English. For a good overview of the Socialist Party and the generation of activists of which Laurent Fabius was a part, see D. S. Bell and Byron Criddle, The French Socialist Party: Resurgence and Victory (1984); and Denis Mac-Shane, François Mitterrand (1982).
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