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Jean Baylet
Jean Baylet (6 April 1904, Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne - 29 May 1959) was a French politician. He represented the Radical Party in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945, in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1946 and in the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958.
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joined her late husband's name to her own. Mme Evelyne Baylet became Mme Evelyne-Jean Baylet.
Life Politics.
She also assumed her husband's political mantle. Jean Baylet had served as mayor of Valence-d'Agen since 1930. Evelyne-Jean Baylet succeeded him between 1959 and 1977, after which the position passed to the couple's son, Jean-Michel Baylet. There was nothing seamless about that succession, however. It involved a fierce contest that ended up in a court case. Jean-Michel Baylet