On April 24, a double election took place in Friauville. That, very official, of the second round of the presidential election. And the other, more playful, intended to name the village square. Three names were proposed and that of Jeanne Rossinot won 41.86% of the votes of adults but also of children.
If we know André Rossinot well, mayor of Nancy for thirty-one years, deputy from 1986 to 1997, minister twice in the Chirac and Balladur governments, president of the radical party and president of the urban community of Greater Nancy (CUGN ) until 2020, the name of his mother was until then more confidential.
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Symbolic place
And yet, she occupied an important place in Friauville where she was the first woman elected municipal councilor on May 20, 1945. A member of the administrative commission of the charity office, she was re-elected in 1947 and also sat on the municipal school commission. She left the village in 1953 to settle in Olley where her husband was appointed teacher.
Until 1989, no other woman will be elected to the Friauvillois municipal council. “Today, they are more numerous than men,” smiles the mayor, Christian Guirlinger, delighted to inaugurate this symbolic place, place of many festive or memorial gatherings. For the occasion, André Rossinot and the grandchildren of Jeanne Rossinot made the trip.
They unveiled not the plaque but the desk designed by Fabien Gendre which will now serve as support for all the other ceremonies organized there.
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