Albin Chalandon

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

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

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.^[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]