Pierre M�haignerie is a French politician. He is a former deputy of the Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency and presently mayor of Vitr�. He is married to Vassar graduate Julie Harding, of Rochester, New York USA and has a son and a daughter. He was elected in 1973 to the French parliament in the Ille-et-Vilaine's 3rd constituency and became mayor of Vitr� in 1977. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1977 to 1981 and Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1995. A former member of the UDF political party, he has since joined the UMP party. He became one of the Party's Vice-Presidents in 2007. [More at Wikipedia]

May 4th, 1939 in Balazé (Age 85)