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Michel Destot, former mayor of Grenoble, France, dies at 80

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Michel Destot, former mayor of Grenoble, France, dies at 80English : This photo has been taken by Matthieu Riegler (… · CC BY 3.0

Michel Destot, Socialist mayor of Grenoble from 1995 to 2014 and deputy for Isère from 1988 to 2017, died on Saturday 14 November aged 80. The city council announced the news, hailing him as a 'figure of history' for the city, while former president François Hollande paid tribute to him on X.

Michel Destot, former Socialist mayor of Grenoble, died on Saturday 14 November at the age of 80, the city council has announced. He had led the city from 1995 to 2014 and sat as a deputy for Isère from 1988 to 2017.

Elected in 1995 after the legal troubles of Alain Carignon, who was then mayor, he served three consecutive terms. Trained as an engineer and born in 1946 at Malo-les-Bains, in the Nord department, he had moved closer in the 1970s to the so-called 'second left' embodied by Michel Rocard.

The city council praised a vision of Grenoble’s development that linked innovation, research, the economy, transport and urban planning. The current mayor, Laurence Ruffin, recalls the image of a Grenoble resident she came across on hiking trails. François Hollande praised on X 'a man who sought to unite around great causes'.

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