Jean-Pierre Defontaine | |
Birth Date: | 1937 2, df=y |
Birth Place: | Mametz, France |
Death Place: | Hénin-sur-Cojeul, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | PRG |
Office: | Member of the French National Assembly |
Term Start: | 3 April 1978 |
Term End: | 17 June 2007 |
Predecessor: | position established |
Successor: | Jacqueline Maquet |
Constituency: | Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency |
Office2: | General Councilor of the Canton of Avesnes-le-Comte |
Term Start2: | 2004 |
Term End2: | 2015 |
Predecessor2: | Louis Petit |
Successor2: | Maryse Delassus Michel Petit |
Office3: | Member of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie |
Term Start3: | 17 March 1986 |
Term End3: | 15 March 1998 |
Office4: | Mayor of Hénin-sur-Cojeul |
Term Start4: | 14 March 1983 |
Term End4: | 18 June 1996 |
Predecessor4: | Jean Antoniazzi |
Successor4: | Pierre Roussez |
Jean-Pierre Defontaine (4 February 1937 – 1 January 2022) was a French politician. A member of the Radical Party of the Left, he served Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency from 1978 to 2007.[1] He also served as President of the football club RC Lens from 1976 to 1979.[2] In 2015, a multipurpose venue was named after him in Hénin-sur-Cojeul.[3] Defontaine died on 1 January 2022, at the age of 82.[4]