Trivia

Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988).

His parents : Calixte (dead in 1974) and Emma.

Has 6 children : Hélène, Marie, Dominique, Calixte, Agnès and André.

French Minister of National Education from 1993 to 1997.

Being president of Union for French Democracy (UDF) since 1998, he is the party's candidate to become French president in 2007.