Mich�le Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement. A member of all but one right-wing governments of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense, the Interior and Foreign Affairs. She has also been in charge of Youth and Sports and Justice, and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices. She resigned in 2011 after nine years in government due to her position during the Tunisian revolution. One year later, in the 2012 French legislative elections, she lost her seat as Deputy for the 6th Constituency of Pyr�n�es-Atlantiques to Socialist Party candidate Sylviane Alaux in the second round, 48.38% to Alaux's 51.62% share of the vote. She still remains Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, as well as Vice President of the Union for a Popular Movement. Alliot-Marie was the last President of the Rally for the Republic, the last incarnation of the Gaullist party, and was the first woman to chair a major French political party. 

September 10th, 1946 in Villeneuve-le-Roi (Age 78)