René-Georges Laurin

René-Georges Laurin (Paris, 2 May 1921 - Saint-Raphaël (Var), 29 April 2006) was a French politician.

He was born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and raised in a very modest environment. He became a highly respected appraiser, a militant of the French Resistance, mayor of Saint-Raphael, and senator of the Var. His political affiliation was the right-wing party Rally for the Republic (RPR) which merged to Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002.

Involvement in the French Resistance

He began his activist involvement with the Young Christian Workers (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétien) in 1936. He became a militant of the French Resistance in 1940 and was one of the founders of the Movement of Young Christian Fighters His was elected as deputy to represent the Var Union for the New Republic at the National Assembly in 1958, and reelected in 1962 under UNR-UDT until 1967. He was Mayor of Saint-Raphael from 1961 to 1965 and then from 1977 to 1992 after which he had reached the quota of mandates allowed by the law of cumulative quotas.

Medals received Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Médaille de la Résistance, Médaille des Évadés, Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance, and Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur