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Abbé Pierre
Abbé Pierre (Henri Grouès, 1912–2007), French priest, Resistance member, and deputy who founded the Emmaus movement and became famous for his 1 February 1954 radio appeal for the homeless; from 2024 subject of extensive sexual abuse allegations.
Alain Poher
Alain Poher (1909-1996), French centrist and MRP Christian democrat, President of the Senate 1968-1992, twice interim President of the Republic (1969, 1974), 1969 presidential runner-up, and president of the European Parliamentary Assembly 1966-1969.
Popular Republican Movement
Popular Republican Movement (Mouvement républicain populaire, MRP), French Christian-democratic party founded November 1944 by Resistance figures such as Bidault and Schumann; dominant in the Fourth Republic's tripartism and Third Force, key to European integration, dissolved into the Centre démocrate in 1967.
The Republicans (France)
Les Républicains (LR) is France's main conservative party, created in 2002 as the UMP to support Jacques Chirac and renamed Les Républicains in May 2015; heir of the RPR, led by Bruno Retailleau since May 2025.