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Catherine Lalumière
Catherine Lalumière (born 3 August 1935, Rennes) is a French politician of the Radical Party of the Left.
Before her political career, she lectured on public law at the University of Rennes and the University of Paris I. She began a foray into politics in 1981 as Minister of Consumption in the cabinet of Pierre Mauroy, and held several offices throughout the 1980s.
She served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1989 to 1994, and became a member of the European Parliament in 1994
as deputy from the True Path Party, led by Demirel at the time.
In a memorable episode, he caused much controversy and acquired international notoriety in June 1995, when he reacted to the declarations made by three female parliamentarians of the European Parliament on visit to Turkey (Pauline Green, the then leader of the Party of European Socialists, Catherine Lalumière, representing the European Radical Alliance, and Claudia Roth, the chairperson of the Green Group at the time), by qualifying the deputies as "prostitutes coming from Europe