Marcelle Lentz-Cornette (2 March 1927 – 29 January 2008) was a Luxembourgish politician for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). Outside politics, she was a schoolteacher.
In that year, she joined the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, of which she remained a member until 1999. During one of her official mission in Latin America, Manuel Noriega experienced her blunt and rather undiplomatic way of expressing her strong opinion on human rights and democracy.
She served two more spells in Sanem's communal council (1997–1999, 2001–2003), before retiring.
Beside this, Marcelle Lentz-Cornette dedicated time and personal money to improve health care conditions in Nicaragua.
Marcelle Lentz-Cornette is also recognized as one of the Luxembourg politicians to have encouraged, protected and pushed Jean-Claude Juncker in his political career from the beginning. In 2003, Lentz-Cornette remaining completely faithful to the USA since World War II and defended the war against Sadam Hussein and Iraq, though this was not in line with Juncker's cautious distance with the US offensive. From this episode, their long political connivance was damaged.
On September 28, 2013 Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, her "son in politics" and the Mayor of Sanem launched a square in new city Belval named Place Marcelle Lentz-Cornette.
Private life
Marcelle Lentz-Cornette was married to doctor Albert Lentz (1927–2017) . She is the aunt and godmother of Guy Lentz, coordinator for International and European Energy issues at the Government of Luxembourg.