Roland Dumas

Roland Dumas

Roland Dumas (born 23 August 1922) is a French lawyer and Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 1999. Roland Dumas is the son of Elisabeth Lecanuet and Georges Dumas, a civil servant in Limoges's region and Socialist resistant to the German Occupation during the Second World War. shot at by the Gestapo, he conveyed weapons for the Resistance. He was arrested after organizing a boycott of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by French students. After the war, he completed his law and political science studies in the Ecole libre des sciences politiques and the London School of Economics. As a journalist and lawyer, he defended Jean Mons, Secretary-General of the Defence Committee, from charges of negligence in a case where Mons's assistant was accused of passing secrets of national security to communists. In this, he became close to François Mitterrand, president of the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR) party, himself suspected in the same scandal. In 1956, he was elected deputy for Haute-Vienne département under the UDSR banner. He lost his seat in the 1958 legislative election, which followed the return of General Charles de Gaulle to power. He came back into the French National Assembly between 1967 and 1968 as representative of Corrèze département. As a member of the renewed Socialist Party (PS) led by Mitterrand, he became deputy for Gironde in 1973, then for Dordogne on the occasion of the "pink wave" of 1981. In 1974, he acted as defence lawyer for Hilarion Capucci, who was prosecuted in Israel on charges of smuggling weapons into the country for the PLO. When President Mitterrand appointed Laurent Fabius as Prime Minister in July 1984, Dumas joined the cabinet as Minister of European Affairs. Five months later, he replaced Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. He remained in this position until the Socialist defeat in the March 1986 legislative election. Nevertheless, he returned to the Quai d'Orsay after the re-election of Mitterrand in May 1988, until the PS defeat in the March 1993 legislative elections. He was the French Foreign Minister during the collapse of the Soviet Block, the Gulf War, and the negotiations of the Maastricht Treaty. After losing reelection to the French National Assembly in 1993, he was nominated President of the Constitutional Council in 1995. Under his presidency, the body argued in favour of complete judicial immunity for the French President. Roland Dumas is a member of the Emergency Committee for Iraq. In June 2013, during an appearance on the French news channel La Chaîne parlementaire, Dumas claimed that British officials had been preparing for intervention in Syria two years before the start of the Arab Spring. "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business," he said. "I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organising an invasion of rebels into Syria." Accused in the Elf affair, he resigned from the Presidency of the Constitutional Council in January 1999. ... Source: Article "Roland Dumas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Roland Dumas
  • Popularity: 0.519
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-08-23
  • Place of Birth: Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
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Roland Dumas Movies

  • 2007
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    Lucio

    Lucio

    7.5 2007 HD

    There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che...

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  • 2018
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    Roland Dumas, le mauvais garçon de la république

    Roland Dumas, le mauvais garçon de la république

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2010
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    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    10 2010 HD

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  • 2011
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    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    9 2011 HD

    "What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

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  • 2014
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    Ministre ou rien

    Ministre ou rien

    1 2014 HD

    This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the french Fifth Republic today. Twenty-one...

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  • 2011
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    Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national

    Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national

    4 2011 HD

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  • 2019
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    Danielle Mitterrand, une certaine idée de la France

    Danielle Mitterrand, une certaine idée de la France

    1 2019 HD

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  • 2011
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    The Last Days of the USSR

    The Last Days of the USSR

    8 2011 HD

    From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic...

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  • 2017
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    Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons

    Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons

    8 2017 HD

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  • 2000
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    François Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir

    François Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir

    6 2000 HD

    Jean Lacouture and Patrick Rotman interview the witnesses of François Mitterrand's life. Their testimonies, which both complement and...

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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