Pierre Mauroy

Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy
Prime Minister of France
	In office; 21 May 1981 – 17 July 1984
President	François Mitterrand
Preceded by	Raymond Barre
Succeeded by	Laurent Fabius
President of the Socialist International
	In office; 17 September 1992 – 10 November 1999
Preceded by	Willy Brandt
Succeeded by	António Guterres
First Secretary of the French Socialist Party
	In office; 14 May 1988 – 9 January 1992
Preceded by	Lionel Jospin
Succeeded by	Laurent Fabius
Mayor of Lille
	In office; 8 January 1973 – 25 March 2001
Preceded by	Augustin Laurent
Succeeded by	Martine Aubry
Member of the French Senate; for Nord
	In office; 2 October 1992 – 30 September 2011
Personal details
Born	5 July 1928; Cartignies, Nord, France
Died	7 June 2013 (aged 84); Clamart, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Occupation	Teacher

Pierre Mauroy (5 July 1928 – 7 June 2013) was a French Socialist Party politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001. At the time of his death Mauroy was the emeritus mayor of the city of Lille.

Mauroy was born on 5 July 1928 in Cartignies, Nord, France. He studied at École Normale Nationale d'Apprentissage and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. Mauroy was married to Gilberte Deboudt from 1951 until his death in 2013. They had one son. Mauroy died on 7 June 2013 in Paris, France from lung cancer, aged 84.^[1]