Yvette Chassagne
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Yvette Madeleine Chassagne ( 28 March 1922 – 4 September 2007) was a French civil servant. She was the first woman to hold the position of prefect in France.[1]
Life
The daughter of André Brunetière and Lily Barrière,
From 1943 to 1944, during the German occupation of France, she was part of a French Resistance network that produced false identity papers and warned Jewish families of impending raids.[3]
After the war, she was one of the three first women to enter the
In 1981, she was named prefect for Loir-et-Cher by François Mitterrand.[4] After leaving that post, she was president of the Union des assurances de Paris from 1983 to 1987. She subsequently served as president of the Association Prévention Routière. From 1988 to 1994, she served as advisor to the president of Club Med. She was elected to the municipal council for Narbonne in 2001.[4][2]
She married Jean Chassagne; the couple had two children but later divorced.[2]
Honors
She was named a Commander in the French
Death
She died in Narbonne at the age of 85.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Yvette Chassagne, première femme nommée préfet". Le Monde (in French). 8 September 2007.
- ^ a b c d e "Biographie Yvette Chassagne". Who's Who in France (in French).
- ^ a b "Yvette Chassagne". linternaute.com (in French).
- ^ a b "Yvette Chassagne vient de disparaître". L'Argus de l'Assurance (in French). 5 September 2007.
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