Long deficit Park became recipient in 2007

The France lost during the Easter weekend one of its rare products in politics. The former Minister and President of the Senate Rene Monory died Saturday at the age of eighty-five in his family home, in Loudun, in the Vienne. A city which he had long been mayor and where he began to work at the age of fifteen years as an apprentice in the paternal garage. After this small prosperous automobile grant case, René Monory had quickly embarked on a brilliant political career which led him to the highest positions of the Republic. But he remained to always in the alleys of the power the "garage of Loudun". A profile of son of the people and man of common sense he used often in his sometimes tense relations with trade unions.

Elected Mayor of his hometown in 1959, René Monory soon became the strongman of the Department of la Vienne: General Counsel in 1961, Senator in 1968, President of the General Council in 1977. Appointed Minister of industry of Raymond bar the same year, the centrist imposed in a traditionally austere Department Manager with diplomacy a strike of employees of the EDF. He moved then rue de Rivoli, at the prestigious Ministry of the economy. This position, the man with the certificate to any degree, become Manager without "having never read a book of Economics", created a strong reputation in finance and an advocate of economic liberalism technician. He notably imagina SICAV, drainage system of people's savings to which his name is still attached.

René Monory returned to Government as Minister of the Education of Jacques Chirac during the first cohabitation (1986-1988), after it was briefly, in 1985, President of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes.

The man from the Futuroscope

Rue de Grenelle passing was marked by very controversial reforms and the student protest against the Devaquet law, in which a young Malik Oussekine found death.

He won the Presidency of the Senate in 1992 to Charles Pasqua. But this wry faux to AIDS high held the "plateau" only six years old. A seventy-five years, while he was seeking a third term, he was defeated by the Gaullist Christian Poncelet. He continued to sit in the high Assembly until 2004, when when he retired.

Passionate about high technologies and innovations, René Monory remain also as the man of the Futuroscope, near Poitiers. An amusement park and a technopole did arise to the settings of the fields in 1987. It was said to be his great pride. Futuroscope welcomed more than 35 million visitors since its inception. Long deficit, Park became recipient in 2007.

Weakened by disease, René Monory is was folded in recent years in Loudun where his funeral will be held Thursday. Tributes are followed throughout the weekend. President Sarkozy gave particular example "humanism" writing "not only in its conception of man that he placed in the heart of public action, but also in its conviction of the need to provide for his contemporaries the possibility of access to the largest know." The Prime Minister, François Fillon, has stressed "the outstanding journey of a man of modest origin." As Ségolène Royal, the President of the Poitou-Charentes, it welcomed "political the career of this self-taught which (...)". "rose to the highest Office of the Republic remained very attached to his Department."