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Alain Richard
Alain Richard, born on 29 August 1945, in Paris, is a French politician. An alumnus of the Ecole nationale d'administration, he was mayor of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône and member of the French parliament, elected in Val d'Oise. A member of the French socialist party and ally of Lionel Jospin, he was the French Minister of Defense from 1997 to 2002.
In 1981, he was selected to be one of the first "Young Leaders" of the French-American Foundation.
going despite chronic financial difficulties.
Lee played the lead role in the 1940 revival of Theodore Ward's "Big White Fog". A 1938 Federal Theatre Project production, the play was remounted by the newly created Negro Playwrights Company, founded in New York by Ward, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Theodore Browne, Richard Wright and Alain Locke.
Lee became a star overnight in his ultimate stage success, "Native Son" (1941), an adaptation of Richard Wright's novel staged on Broadway by Orson Welles