Pierre Mazeaud

Pierre Mazeaud, born August 24, 1929 in Lyon's 4th arrondissement, is a French lawyer, politician, and mountaineer. From 1968 onward, he served at various times as a Gaullist MP, Vice-President of the National Assembly, Secretary of State, State Councilor, member, and then President of the Constitutional Council until March 2007. Pierre Mazeaud's family includes several well-known lawyers. He had a difficult high school career. Expelled from middle school to high school, he earned his baccalaureate and earned a law degree and then a doctorate in law in 1955. At the beginning of his law studies, he joined the Anarchist Federation (FA) and became a member of its student committee. He then wrote for Le Libertaire under the pseudonym Pierre Hem. He wrote 11 articles between July 14, 1950, and May 25, 1951, on student struggles, anti-colonialism, and defending the "third front" strategy ("Neither Stalin nor Truman") advocated by the FA. Pierre Mazeaud belonged to two worlds largely alien t...