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Michel Maurice-Bokanowski
Michel Maurice-Bokanowski (6 November 1912 – 3 May 2005) was a French politician of Polish descent. He was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in 1960–62 and Minister of Industry in 1962–66. He was a Senator from 1968 to 1995.
Early years.
Michel Maurice-Bokanowski was born on 6 November 1912 in Paris, the son of the politician Maurice Bokanowski (1879–1928).
His mother was Marguerite Wolff (born 1886), who married Maurice Bokanowski on 14 April 1908.
He had an elder brother, Jean-Jacques Bokanowski, who became an advocate at the Court of Appeal of Paris.
Michel attended the Lycée Condorcet.
His father was killed on 2 September 1928 in an air accident when flying from Toul to an aviation meeting in Clermont-Ferrand.
Michel was authorized to take the name "Maurice-Bokanowski" by a decree of 30 August 1928.
Maurice-Bokanowski married Hélène Kann on 16 March 1938. They had one son, Thierry Maurice-Bokanowski.