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André Billardon
André Billardon (born 22 October 1940) is a French politician and member of the Socialist Party. He is the current mayor of Le Creusot and used to be a Minister during Pierre Bérégovoy's term of office, while François Mitterrand was president. Billardon was a mathematics teacher prior to his involvement in local politics in the third "circonscription" of Saône-et-Loire. Thus, he was elected as a "député" for the first time in 1978. He was then re-elected in every
his professional and political career by serving as chief of staff for the Regional Council of Burgundy from 1979 to 1983, where he worked alongside Pierre Joxe (1979-1982) and André Billardon (1982-1983). He followed Pierre Joxe to various other posts, serving as his chief of staff from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1991. In 1989, he was elected president of the socialist caucus in the Dijon city council.
He then worked under Laurent Fabius while the latter was First Secretary of the