Albin Chalandon

Albin Chalandon (French pronunciation: [albɛ̃ ʃalɑ̃dɔ̃]; 11 June 1920 – 29 July 2020)^[1] was a French politician and minister.^[2]

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Albin Chalandon
Minister of Justice
In office 20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988
Prime Minister	Jacques Chirac
Preceded by	Michel Crépeau
Succeeded by	Pierre Arpaillange
Minister of Public Works
In office 11 July 1968 – 5 July 1972
Prime Minister	Maurice Couve de Murville Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Preceded by	Robert Galley
Succeeded by	Olivier Guichard
Minister of Industry
In office 31 May 1968 – 10 July 1968
Prime Minister	Georges Pompidou
Preceded by	Olivier Guichard
Succeeded by	André Bettencourt
Personal details
Born	(1920-06-11)11 June 1920 Reyrieux, France
Died	29 July 2020(2020-07-29) (aged 100) Les Mesnuls, Yvelines, France
Political party	RPR
Spouses	Salomé Murat ​ ​ (m. 1951; died 2016)​ Catherine Nay ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	3
Education	Lycée Condorcet
Alma mater	Faculté des lettres de Paris
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Between 1968 and 1972, he was Minister of Public Works. He gave his name to the inexpensive single-family homes known as "chalandonnettes",^[3] of which around 65,000 were built between 1970 and 1972 and which became a byword for poor construction quality.^[4] And from 1986 until 1988, he was Minister of Justice.^[4]

Between 1967 and 1968, he was a member of the Union for the New Republic, then between 1968 and 1976 he was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic and finally from 1986 until 1988 he was a member of the Rally for the Republic.

Chalandon died aged 100 in July 2020.^[4] Éric Dupond-Moretti described his death as depriving France of one of its "Liberation fighters" and "the Republic one of its great servants".^[5]

1. ^ "L'ancien Garde des Sceaux Albin Chalandon est mort à l'âge de 100 ans" (in French). Europe 1. 30 July 2020.
2. ^ "Cabinet de Albin Chalandon" (in French). Minister of Justice. 12 March 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
3. ^ "Ils nous ont quittés - Albin Chalandon, ancien ministre". Le Point (in French). 7 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Albin Chalandon, « baron gaulliste » et ministre de la Justice sous Mitterrand, est mort à 100 ans". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). 30 July 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
5. ^ à 10h40, Par Le Parisien avec AFP Le 30 juillet 2020 (30 July 2020). "Mort de l'ancien ministre de la Justice Albin Chalandon". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Political offices
Preceded by Olivier Guichard	Minister of Industry 1968	Succeeded by André Bettencourt
Preceded by Robert Galley	Minister of Public Works 1968–1972	Succeeded by Olivier Guichard
Preceded by Michel Crépeau	Minister of Justice 1986–1988	Succeeded by Pierre Arpaillange

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