Édith Cresson

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Édith Cresson is a French politician who served as France’s first female prime minister in the early 1990s.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Prime Minister of France
human
politician
activeIn 20th-century politics of France
European Union politics
appointedBy François Mitterrand
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1934-01-27
educatedAt London School of Economics
École des hautes études commerciales de Paris
endTime 1992-04-02
era Fifth Republic of France
familyName Cresson
fieldOfWork politics
public administration
givenName Édith
hasChild Nathalie Cresson
headOfGovernmentOf France
honorificTitle Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
languageSpoken French
livedIn Boulogne-Billancourt NERFINISHED
Paris
memberOf European Commission
Government of France
memberOfPoliticalParty Socialist Party (France)
nationality French
nativeLanguage French
notableAchievement first woman to serve as Prime Minister of France
notableWork first female Prime Minister of France
officeContested European Parliament
placeOfBirth Boulogne-Billancourt NERFINISHED
Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France
positionHeld European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science
Minister of Agriculture
Minister of European Affairs
Minister of Foreign Trade
Prime Minister of France
precededBy Michel Rocard
religion Roman Catholicism
residence France
sexOrGender female
spouse Jacques Cresson
startTime 1991-05-15
succeededBy Pierre Bérégovoy
workLocation Paris

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