Albin Chalandon

Albin Chalandon was a French politician and minister.
Between 1968 and 1972, he was Minister of [Public Works |Minister of Public Works]. He gave his name to the inexpensive single-family homes known as "chalandonnettes", of which around 65,000 were built between 1970 and 1972 and which became a byword for poor construction quality. And from 1986 until 1988, he was Minister of [Justice |Minister of Justice].
Between 1967 and 1968, he was a member of the Union for the New Republic, then between 1968 and 1976 he was a member of the Union of [Democrats for the Republic] and finally from 1986 until 1988 he was a member of the Rally for the Republic.
Chalandon died aged 100 in July 2020. Éric Dupond-Moretti described his death as depriving France of one of its "Liberation fighters" and "the Republic one of its great servants".