How to Pronounce Michel Durafour
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Apr 11, 1920 Saint Étienne, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France Died on 27 Jul 2017 (aged 97)
French politician
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About Michel Durafour
- Michel Durafour (11 April 1920 in Saint-Étienne, Loire – 27 July 2017) was a French conservative politician.
- He served in many government posts under Jacques Chirac, Raymond Barre and Michel Rocard, and was Mayor of Saint-Étienne from 1965 to 1977.In 1988, while serving as Minister of Public Service in Rocard's government, Durafour was the subject of a personal attack on his faith which provoked a "storm of criticism".
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right wing defeated Presidential candidate, referred to Durafour as "Mr.
- Durafour-crematoire", a play on words as "four" is the French term for oven, and "oven crematorium" is a reference to the Nazi death camps of the Second World War.
- Alain Juppé responded by stating that "There are words one does not make jokes about" while the French Socialist Party spokesman Jean-Jack Queyranne stated that "Mr.
- Le Pen is showing what he is at heart: a racist and an anti-Semite".
- Le Pen himself stated that he was responding to Durafour's own accusations regarding Le Pen's role in World War II, and that "Mr.
- Durafour is not just an imbecile but a bum".
