Paul-Marie Coûteaux
French politician
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Paul-Marie Coûteaux (born 31 July 1956, in Paris) is a French politician and author. He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 for the Movement for France, and a member of Via since 2018
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Paul-Marie Coûteaux in Toulouse in April 2007 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Île-de-France | |
| In office 1999–2009 | |
Early life
Paul-Marie Coûteaux was born on 31 July 1956.[1] He graduated from the École nationale d'administration.[2] In a Gay nightclub, Coûteaux discovered Gaullism.[3]
Family
Descending from Mathieu Coûteaux, bailiff and receiver of Claude Lamoral II, Prince of Ligne House of Ligne and the barony of Belœil,[4] he is the son of writer and scenarist André Couteaux and the brother of Stanislas Coûteaux, founder with Géraldine Becq de Fouquières, of the real estate agency, Book-A-Flat.[5][6][7][8]
Career
Coûteaux was an assistant to Michel Jobert from 1981 to 1983, Philippe de Saint Robert from 1984 to 1987, Jean-Pierre Chevènement from 1988 to 1991,[2] Boutros Boutros-Ghali from 1991 to 1993, Philippe Séguin to the French National Assembly from 1993 to 1996.[citation needed]
Coûteaux served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Île-de-France from 1999 to 2009.[1] He was a member of the Mouvement pour la France, and a member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy.[1] He served on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.[9]
He founded the Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms (SIEL) party in 2011 in the run-up to the 2012 elections.[10]
Coûteaux joined Reconquête in 2022.[11]
Works
- Clovis, une histoire de France, Lattès, 1996 ISBN 978-2709616799
- L'Europe vers la guerre, Michalon, 1997 ISBN 978-2841860791
- Traité de savoir disparaître à l'usage d'une vieille génération, Michalon, 1998 ISBN 978-2841860814
- La Puissance et la Honte : trois lettres françaises, Michalon, 1999 ISBN 978-2841861071
- De Gaulle philosophe : le génie de la France, tome 1, Lattès, 2002 ISBN 978-2709620673
- Un petit séjour en France, Bartillat, 2003 ISBN 978-2841002986
- Ne laissons pas mourir la France (avec Nicolas Dupont-Aignan), Albin Michel, 2004 ISBN 978-2226142177
- Être et parler français, Perrin, 2006 ISBN 978-2262023362
- De Gaulle philosophe : la colère du peuple, tome 2, Lattès, 2010 ISBN 9782709626835
- De Gaulle, espérer contre tout : lettre ouverte à Régis Debray, Xenia, 2010 ISBN 978-2888921080
