Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (4 March 1920 – 22 February 1993) was a French centrist politician. Lecanuet was born to a family of modest means in Rouen...

candidacy led to other politicians entering the race. The MRP leader Jean Lecanuet was nominated by his party and the National Centre of Independents and...

The party's long-time leader was Jean Lecanuet. Democratic Centre was founded on 2 February 1966 by Jean Lecanuet after his 1965 presidential campaign...

Assembly and the MRP suffered a serious electoral defeat. In 1963, Jean Lecanuet took the leadership in order to renew the party's image. He was a candidate...

a new "centrist pole" within it, the New Centre led by Hervé Morin. Jean Lecanuet (1978–1988) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1988–1996) François Léotard (1996–1998)...

Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was the centrist and Christian democratic component of the UDF. Its leader Jean Lecanuet was the first...

politics pushed the MPR into opposition before dissolving in 1965. Jean Lecanuet was inspired to found a new party, the Democratic Centre. The Union...

had promised to decriminalize abortion during his campaign; however, Jean Lecanuet, then Minister of Justice, refused to defend the law on personal and...

with the foundation of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS) in 1976 by Jean Lecanuet, which remained independent of the activities of the senatorial group...

Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election. Jean-Jacques Schreiber...