Gérard Larcher
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| President of the French Senate | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Bel |
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In office 1 October 2008 – 1 October 2011 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Preceded by | Christian Poncelet |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Bel |
| Senator of Yvelines | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2007 |
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In office 2 October 1985 – 30 April 2004 |
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14 September 1949 Flers, Orne, France |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Spouse(s) | Christine Weiss |
| Children | 3 |
| Profession | veterinarian |
Gérard Larcher (born 14 September 1949) is a French politician who has been President of the Senate of France since 2014. He previously served in the same post from 2008 to 2011. A member of the center-right The Republicans, he was a Senator for the Yvelines département from 1986 to 2004 and has been again since 2007.
Gérard Larcher was born in Flers, Orne to a Catholic family. He is the son of Philippe Larcher, director of a textile factory and former mayor of Saint-Michel-des-Andaines, a small town in the Orne.
Upon his second marriage with Christine Weiss, a dentist, he converted to Protestantism. From this union were born three children : Aymeric, Dorothée and Charlotte.
Graduated from the National Veterinary School of Lyon (ENVL), Larcher worked from 1974 to 1979 in the France team of equestrian sports.
In 1976, he joined, as a high school student, the movement of young Gaullists, because he admired Charles de Gaulle and supported the policy of the founder of the Fifth Republic.
In 1983, he was elected Mayor of Rambouillet, in Yvelines. Two years later, he was elected regional councilor of Ile-de-France.
On 28 September 1986, for the first time, Gérard Larcher was elected Senator of Yvelines for the Rally for the Republic (RPR). Aged 37, he was one of the youngest French senators. Appointed Secretary of the Senate in 1989, he was re-elected as a Senator in 1995 and elected as Vice President of the Senate in 1997. In 2001, he was appointed as President of the Senate's Economic Affairs Commission.
In March 2004, after the defeat of the right in regional elections, Gérard Larcher was appointed Delegate Minister to the Minister of Social Affairs in the cabinet of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He retained his place in the government in June 2005, after the appointment of Dominique de Villepin as Prime Minister.
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