Louis Mexandeau died Monday at the age of 92, announced the deputy of Calvados Arthur Delaporte as well as the mayor of Caen. He had been François Mitterrand’s minister and deputy for Calvados for almost thirty years.
Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones (PTT) between 1981 and 1986, he was one of the historic barons of Mitterrandism, alongside Pierre Joxe, Louis Mermaz and Paul Quilès, supporting François Mitterrand from his first presidential campaign in 1965.
Originally from the north of France, Louis Mexandeau had settled in Normandy in the early 1960s to teach history there, before making it his electoral stronghold. “This morning, the city of Caen lost one of its emblematic figures”, posted on X (ex-Twitter) Joël Bruneau, mayor of Caen.
This morning the city
Louis Mexandeau died in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland, where he settled and where he will now rest, said in a press release the deputy Arthur Delaporte, one of his successors to the deputation in Calvados.
