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Jean Sainteny

Jean Sainteny

French parliamentarian
Date of Birth	29 May 1907
Date of death	25 February 1978
Mandate	MP 1962 - one thousand nine hundred sixty-three
Riding	^2nd district of Seine
Parliamentary Group	UNR-UDT
^Fifth Republic
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Jean Sainteny born Jean Roger, ( 29 May 1907 at Vsinet - 25 February 1978 in Paris ) was a politician French and a Companion of the Liberation.

Biography

Jean Roger (in May 1949 , it will be officially allowed to wear his nickname resistant Sainteny) studied in Paris , high schools Condorcet and Janson de Sailly. He joined the Bank of Indochina who sends in French Indochina in 1929 before returning to France in 1932 to found a business insurance consultant. In 1933, he married Lydia Sarraut, becoming Chairman's son Albert Sarraut. They have a son. Discharged in 1940 , he joined the Resistance in the Cotentin. Head of Sector Normandy for the network strength Alliance under the name "Dragon", he was captured by the Gestapo , then managed to escape and became one of the architects of the invasion of Normandy. He brings to General Patton 's information that will invest Paris. In 1946 , he was Commissioner of the Republic for the Tonkin and Annam North and negotiate with Ho Chi Minh. It is also the source of an agreement with the leader Viet Minh in Indochina that remains in the French Union : Agreement Sainteny Ho. This agreement will become void after the bombing of Haiphong ordered by the High Commissioner Thierry d'Argenlieu. Consequently, his desire to negotiate its role and becomes a minority school. Ambushed, he was wounded. After the Geneva Accords of 1954 , he returned to Hanoi as a delegate of the French government.

In 1955 , divorced, he married Claude Dulong , palographe archivist, who was later a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

It is the Commissioner General of Tourism 1959 to 1962. Elected UNR-UDT in 1962 of the second district of the Seine ( ^Second and ^Third arrondissement of Paris ), he entered the Pompidou government as Minister of Veterans and War Victims and holds the portfolio between 28 November 1962 and 8 January 1966.

From 1967 to 1972 , he is a director of Air France. He is also director of the International Institute of Public Administration (in 1967 ), founder and president of the General Office of the air (in 1969 ) and the French Fund for Nature and Environment (in 1970 ).

In 1968 , he founded the International Buddhist Institute , which gives rise to the creation of the pagoda of Vincennes ^Decorations