Marcel Rigout

Marcel Rigout (10 May 1928 – 23 August 2014)[1] was a French politician. He served as Minister of Vocational Training from 1981 to 1984, under former President François Mitterrand.[2][3][4] From an early age, he was a member of the French Communist Party.[3][5][6][7] To improve vocational skills, while serving as a government minister, Rigout helped to set up some 800 centres called either PAIO or missions locales between 1982 and 1984 where youngsters were provided with vocational guidance.[8]

Marcel Rigout
Minister of Vocational Training
In office
1981–1984
PresidentFrançois Mitterrand
Prime MinisterPierre Mauroy
Personal details
Born(1928-05-10)10 May 1928
Verneuil-sur-Vienne, France
Died23 August 2014(2014-08-23) (aged 86)
Limoges, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyFrench Communist Party

Bibliography
  • L'autre chance (1983)

References
  1. "L'ancien ministre communiste Marcel Rigout est mort". lemonde.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. Maxwell Adereth, The French Communist party: a critical history (1920–1984), from Comintern to "the colours of France", Manchester University Press ND, 1984, p. 263
  3. Laird Boswell, Rural communism in France, 1920–1939, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998, p. 35
  4. David Scott Bell, François Mitterrand: a political biography, Polity, 2005, p.92
  5. Moya Longstaffe, Heroism and passion in literature: studies in honour of Moya Longstaffe, Rodopi, 2004, p.263
  6. Communisme 87 - Regards Sur Le Communisme Britanique, L'age d'homme, p.191
  7. Joseph P. Morray, Grand disillusion: François Mitterrand and the French left, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, p. 126
  8. Lewis, H.D. (1985). The French Education System. Croom Helm. p. 95. ISBN 9780709916833. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
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