Michel Durafour, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel Durafour

French politician

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1920

Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 27-Jul-2017

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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".