Birthday
1934/01/27 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also know as
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Édith Cresson (née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022. Her political career ended in scandal as a result of corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology. Cresson was appointed to the prime ministerial post by President François Mitterrand on 15 May 1991...Read more