Magdeleine Anglade

Magdeleine Anglade (5 July 1921 – 25 March 1998) was a French politician and company director who served two terms as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the National Centre of Independents and Peasants party from 1982 to 1984 and in the Senate for the Rally for the Republic party as a senator for the Paris department between 1994 and 1995. She was a councillor of Paris' 8th arrondissement and then Paris' 1st arrondissement while also serving as Deputy Mayor of Paris. Anglade was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in December 1995.

Early life Anglade was born in Valence, Drôme on 5 July 1921. She did her higher education studies in Lyon. Anglade enlisted in the Grenoble section of the Red Cross as an ambulance nurse in 1940 and remained there until the conclusion of the Second World War. The Red Cross requested her to form part of a medical convoy to care for the detained prisoners at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Literature at the University of Lyon in 1945. Between 1950 and 1954, Anglade continued to work as a Red Cross ambulance driver and tended to wounded soldiers in Indochina. She was a member of the Committee on External Economic Relations and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. She was vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States from January 1987 to July 1989 and was a member of the Bureau of the European Parliament between October 1987 and July 1989. Anglade was a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on Women's Rights, the Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy and the Political Affairs Committee. She was a substitute of the Committee on Institutional Affairs, the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment and the Political Affairs Committee. She died on 25 March 1998 in Paris and her funeral took place at the La Madeleine, Paris six days later. The Paris Mayor paid tribute to her in the Council of Paris on 6 April.