Bernard Piras | |
Office: | Member of the French Senate for Drôme |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 2014 |
Office2: | Mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence |
Term Start2: | 2001 |
Term End2: | 2014 |
Birth Date: | 5 June 1942 |
Birth Place: | Grenoble, France |
Death Place: | France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Bernard Piras (5 June 1942 – 1 February 2016) was a French politician, a member of the Senate of France, representing the Drôme department between 1996 and 2014.[1] He was also the mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence from 2001 to 2014.[1]
Piras was a member of the Socialist Party.[1]
He became the "muse" and significant other of Hermes creative director, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski in 2012, resulting in a line of silk scarves being formed in his name, as a pun on the city, Paris.