About Gérard Boulanger
Lived 1948 – 2018 (aged 69). Gérard Boulanger was a French politician, lawyer, trade unionist, political activist and essayist.
Gérard Boulanger (October 1948 – 8 June 2018) was a French lawyer and human rights activist. He was close to the Left Front.
In 1999, Boulanger was convicted of defamation against the noted French historian Henri Amouroux.
A famous lawyer, notably leading charges against Maurice Papon, Boulanger was also a human rights activist and union member. He wrote the biography of Papon, Maurice Papon: A French Bureaucrat in Collaboration.
In 2010, he was selected to be the Left Front's candidate in Aquitaine for the 2010 regional elections.
Boulanger died from cancer in June 2018.
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Who was Gérard Boulanger?
French politician and lawyer (1948–2018)
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Gérard Boulanger was born on 14 October 1948 in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer.
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Gérard Boulanger died on 8 June 2018 in Bordeaux.
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Gérard Boulanger was a politician, lawyer, trade unionist, political activist and essayist.
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Gérard Boulanger was French.
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