Huguette Bouchardeau

Huguette Bouchardeau (born 1 June 1935) is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher (founder of HB Éditions), essayist, and biographer.

Political career
Bouchardeau was a candidate of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in the 1981 presidential election, receiving 1.1% of the vote, and National Secretary of the Party between 1979 and 1981. Bouchardeau also served as Minister of the Environment and Way of Life in the French Socialist Party-led cabinets of Pierre Mauroy (1981–1984) and Laurent Fabius (1984–1986).

Selected works

 * La famille Renoir, 2004
 * La grande verrière, 1991
 * Le déjeuner, 1998
 * Le ministère du possible, 1986
 * Les roches rouges: Portrait d'un père, 1997
 * Leur père notre père, 1996
 * Mes nuits avec Descartes, 2002
 * Nathalie Sarraute, 2003
 * Pas d'histoire, les femmes, 1977
 * Rose Noël, 1992
 * Simone Weil, 1995
 * Tout le possible, 1981
 * Une institurion : La philo. dans l'enseignement du 2ème degré en France 1900–1972, 1975
 * Un coin dans leur monde,1980