Claude Prouvoyeur | |
Office: | Senator from Nord |
Term Start: | 25 September 1983 |
Term End: | 1 October 1992 |
Office1: | Mayor of Dunkirk |
Term Start1: | 18 September 1966 |
Term End1: | 19 March 1989 |
Successor1: | Michel Delebarre |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1927 |
Birth Place: | Estourmel, France |
Death Place: | Dunkirk, France |
Nationality: | French |
Claude Prouvoyeur (5 January 1927 – 17 January 2018) was a French politician.
Born in 1927, Prouvoyeur was raised in Cateau.[1] He moved to Dunkirk and began teaching at Lycée Jean-Bart in the late 1950s. Prouvoyeur was named deputy mayor of the commune in charge of finance in 1965, and assumed the mayoralty upon the death of .[2] While the mayor of Dunkirk, Prouvoyeur concurrently served in multiple positions on the Nord regional council. He was elected to the Senate in 1983 as a representative for Nord, yielding the mayorship of Dunkirk to Michel Delebarre in 1989.[3] Prouvoyeur left the Senate in 1992, and died at the age of 91 on 17 January 2018.[4]