Francis Giraud
French physician
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Biography
Francis Giraud is the son of Paul Giraud, a professor of medicine, and Marie-Louise Jauffret.
A student at the Sacré-Cœur boarding school, he pursued his studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Marseille.
Political career
Francis Giraud became mayor of Roquefort-la-Bédoule in 1983, and was re-elected four times under the RPR and UMP labels, with the list he led winning in the first round of the 2008 municipal elections.[2]
Elected senator for Bouches-du-Rhône on September 27, 1998, through proportional representation,[3] he was a member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices from 2002 to 2004 and did not run again in 2008.[4]
In 2007, he introduced a bill concerning the teaching staff of general medicine, co-signed among others by Senator Yves Fréville, submitted on November 6, 2007, adopted on December 12, 2007, and promulgated on February 9, 2008.[5]
Vice-president of the Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole, to whose creation he had contributed, he resigned from his position as mayor in September 2009, remaining a municipal councillor. Francis Giraud died on October 23, 2010, from pancreatic cancer.[6]
Distinction
- Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur april 12, 2009; Knight on March 23, 1991.[7]
- Ordre des Palmes académiques (1994)[8]