Jacques Fournier (government official)

Jacques Fournier
Fournier in 2015
Secrétaire général du Gouvernement [fr]
In office
10 July 1982 – 26 March 1986
Preceded byMarceau Long [fr]
Succeeded byRenaud Denoix de Saint Marc
Personal details
Born5 May 1929
Épinal, France
Died14 August 2021(2021-08-14) (aged 92)
Political partyPS

Jacques Fournier (5 May 1929 – 14 August 2021) was a French government official.[1][2]

Biography

Fournier spent his childhood and studies in French Algeria. He was a student at the École nationale d'administration from 1951 to 1953 and subsequently served as a legal advisor at the French Embassy in Morocco from 1961 to 1964. He then served as a Conseiller d'État and was on Plan Commission. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the French Republic [fr], then Secrétaire général du Gouvernement [fr] from 1982 to 1986 before being relieved of his duties by Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc.[3] He then served as President of Gaz de France from 1986 to 1988. He subsequently served as President of SNCF from 24 August 1988 to 1 March 1993.[4]

A political activist, Fournier became a member of the Socialist Party following the Epinay Congress and joined the Centre d'études, de recherches et d'éducation socialiste [fr].

Jacques Fournier died on 14 August 2021 at the age of 92.[5]

Publications

  • Politique de l'éducation (1972)
  • Traité du social (1976)
  • Le Pouvoir du social (1979)
  • Le Travail gouvernemental (1987)[6]
  • Le Train, l’Europe et le service public (1993)
  • Critique de la raison communautaire (1996)
  • Livre blanc sur le dialogue social dans la fonction publique (2002)
  • Itinéraire d’un fonctionnaire engagé (2008)
  • L'Économie des besoins (2013)

References

  1. ^ Fournier, Jacques (1929-....) (in French). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Un homme sincère qui a bien servi la République". Le MRC 53 (in French). 5 August 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  3. ^ Favier, Pierre (1991). La décennie Mitterrand. 2, Les épreuves : 1984-1988 (in French). Paris: Editions Points. ISBN 978-2-7578-5799-1. OCLC 941084320.
  4. ^ "« Itinéraire d'un fonctionnaire engagé » par Jacques Fournier, Éditions Dalloz-Sirey, 2008". blog.lemonde.fr (in French). 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Décès de Jacques Fournier, défenseur convaincu du service public, ancien président de la SNCF". Le Figaro (in French). 15 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  6. ^ Chapsal, Jacques (1988). "Fournier (Jacques) - Le travail gouvernemental [compte-rendu]". Persée (in French). 38 (1): 131–132.