François Bayrou is the new Prime Minister. Appointed to Matignon on Friday December 13, 2024, after a week of negotiations, the current mayor of Pau continues this Monday with consultations with political party leaders, in order to give the broad outlines of his action and to appoint a government which would not be censored from the outset. Despite his new obligations as Prime Minister, François Bayrou has no intention of abandoning the city of Pau, dear to his heart, where he was elected for the first time in 2014.
François Bayrou was born on May 25, 1951 in Bordères, a town located about fifteen kilometers from Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It is in the South-West that his family has its roots. This goes back several generations. François Bayrou’s paternal great-great-grandfather was even a forest ranger in Bordères, reports the Geneanet site. The maternal branch is also strongly anchored in the region.
If we dig deep into the family tree of the new tenant of Matignon, we can find a family link, certainly distant but all the same, with a former Minister of Labor. This is Paul Bacon, a resistance fighter during the Second World War, who successively worked under the orders of René Coty and Charles de Gaulle, as Geneanet recalls. By going back through the thread, the site specializing in genealogical research identified ancestors common to François Bayrou and Paul Bacon. Bernard Aillade (born in 1756 and died in 1794) and (…)
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