Huguette Bouchardeau (1 June 1935 – 18 May 2026) was a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher (founder of HB Éditions), novelist, essayist, and biographer.
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Life and career
Bouchardeau was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France on 1 June 1935. She was a candidate of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in the 1981 presidential election, receiving 1.1% of the vote, and National Secretary of the Party between 1979 and 1981. Bouchardeau also served as Minister of the Environment and Way of Life in the French Socialist Party-led cabinets of Pierre Mauroy (1981–1984) and Laurent Fabius (1984–1986).
Bouchardeau died in Paris on 18 May 2026, at the age of 90.
Selected works
La famille Renoir, 2004
La grande verrière, 1991
Le déjeuner, 1998
Le ministère du possible, 1986
Les roches rouges: Portrait d'un père, 1997
Leur père notre père, 1996
Mes nuits avec Descartes, 2002
Nathalie Sarraute, 2003
Pas d'histoire, les femmes, 1977
Rose Noël, 1992
Simone Weil, 1995
Tout le possible, 1981
Une institurion : La philo. dans l'enseignement du 2ème degré en France 1900–1972, 1975
Un coin dans leur monde,1980