Francis Giraud

Francis Giraud (1932 – 2010) was a French physician.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ Mattéi, J.-F.; Garnier, J.-M.; Sarles, J.; Philip, N. (January 2011). "Hommage à Francis Giraud (1932–2010)". Archives de Pédiatrie. 18 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.arcped.2010.12.001. ISSN 0929-693X.
  2. ^ "Résultats" (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-03-12. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Scrutin du 27 septembre 1998 - Résultats-classement parcirconscription" (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  4. ^ "GIRAUD Francis" (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Personnels enseignants de médecine générale - Sénat" (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  6. ^ "Décès de Francis Giraud, l'ancien sénateur maire". 2010-10-23.
  7. ^ "Décret du 10 avril 2009 portant promotion et nomination - Légifrance". legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  8. ^ Décret du 28 Juillet 1994 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre des palmes académiques. Publié dans le Bulletin officiel des décorations, médailles et récompenses 8 october 1994.
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