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Pierre Mauroy

Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999. At the time of his death, Mauroy was the emeritus mayor of the city of Lille.

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“Pierre Mauroy” enters the record as prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierre, Mauroy and Prime can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1984, 1973, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierre, Mauroy and Prime.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pierre Mauroy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.