| Jean-Pierre Michel | |
| Office: | Member of the French Senate for Haute-Saône |
| Term Start: | 1 October 2004 |
| Term End: | 1 October 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Bernard Joly |
| Successor: | Michel Raison Alain Joyandet |
| Office1: | Mayor of Héricourt |
| Term Start1: | 13 March 1983 |
| Term End1: | 30 September 2004 |
| Predecessor1: | André Girard |
| Successor1: | Jean-Michel Villaumé |
| Office2: | Member of the National Assembly from Haute-Saône's 2nd constituency |
| Term Start2: | 23 June 1988 |
| Term End2: | 18 June 2002 |
| Predecessor2: | Proportional representation |
| Successor2: | Maryvonne Briot |
| Term Start3: | 2 July 1981 |
| Term End3: | 1 April 1986 |
| Predecessor3: | Jean-Jacques Beucler |
| Successor3: | Proportional representation |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Nîmes, France |
| Death Place: | Trévenans, France |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
| Spouse: | Myriam Michel |
Jean-Pierre Michel (5 August 1938 – 24 January 2021) was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Haute-Saône department from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Socialist Party. In 2014 he ran for a second term, but lost by a 57%-34% margin to Alain Joyandet and by a 60%-34% margin to mayor Michel Raison.
Michel died on 24 January 2021 at the age of 82.[1]
As part of the study of the bill opening marriage to same-sex couples, as rapporteur of the Committee on Laws, he declared on February 13, 2013: "Me, my position is that something is just [or fair] because that's what the law says, that's all. And the law does not refer to some natural order. It refers to a given balance of power at some point in time, period, nothing else." The philosopher Thibaud Collin interjects: "Ah, I see, the basis of justice is thus the result of a balance of power?" And the socialist rapporteur concludes: "This is my point of view, it is the Marxist point of view on law."(Starting at 1:40:01 in the full video of the committee hearing on 13 February 2013, can be found on YouTube but not linked to.)