Robert Fabre

Robert Fabre
French Ombudsman
In office 1980–1986
Preceded by	Aimé Paquet
Succeeded by	Paul Legatte
French parliamentarian
In office 1962–1980
Constituency	Aveyron's 2nd constituency
Personal details
Born	(1915-12-21)21 December 1915
Died	23 December 2006(2006-12-23) (aged 91)

Robert Fabre (21 December 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron – 23 December 2006 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron) was a French politician and pharmacist.

He was a founding member of the Left Radical Movement (MRG) in 1972 and served as the leader of the MRG until 1978. In this capacity, he became known as the "third man" - the third signatory of the Common Programme of the Union of the Left with François Mitterrand (PS) and Georges Marchais (PCF). He was himself excluded from the party in 1979 when he accepted a special research mission on work offered to him by right-wing President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He founded the Federation of Radical Democracy, but the party never achieved significant success.

He died in 2006, shortly after the death of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, his rival within the Radical-Socialist Party. Servan-Schreiber has been the leader of the right wing of the Radical Party.