Pierre Mazeaud , born the August 24th 1929 with Lyon (4th) is a lawyer, Politician and mountaineer French.

He is resulting from a family of known lawyers (in particular Denis Mazeaud and Henri Mazeaud). Its principal leisure is the Alpinisme which it practices with high level. July 11th, 1961, Pierre Mazeaud and other mountaineers failed to die in the Mont Blanc because of an unforeseen storm (see on this subject). In 1978, it directed the first French forwarding to climb the Mount Everest, and reached itself the top, on October 15th.

Since 1968, he was on several occasions appointed, vice-president of the National Assembly, Secretary of State. He was to advise of state, member then president of the Constitutional council until March 2007.

Formation

• Faculty of Law of Paris
• Doctor in right

Career

• 1961-64 : magistrate
• 1961: operations manager with the cabinet of the Prime Minister Michel Debré.
• 1962-67: adviser technical with the cabinet of the Minister of Justice
• 1967-68: operations manager near the Minister for Youth and the Sports
• 1968-73: deputy of the Hauts-de-Seine
• 1973-74: Secretary of State near the Prime Minister, in charge with Youth, the Sports and the Leisures in the 2nd government Messmer
• March-May 74: Secretary of State near the Minister for State education, in charge with Youth and the Sports in the 3rd government Messmer
• 1974-76: Secretary of State near the Minister for the Quality of the life, in charge with Youth and the Sports in 1r government Chirac
• 1976: to advise State
• 1979-89: mayor of Saint-Julien-in-Genevese
• 1988-98: deputy of Haute-Savoie
• 1987-88: vice-president of the High Court of justice
• 1987-88: chair Commission of the laws of the National Assembly
• 1992-93: vice-president of the National Assembly
• 1993-97: chair Commission of the laws of the National Assembly
• 1992-98: regional adviser of the Rhone-Alps
• 1987-97: regular judge with the High Court of justice
• 1997-98: vice-president of the National Assembly
• 1998: named member of the Constitutional council on February 21st, 1998 by the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac, it lent oath on March 3rd, 1998
• 2004: named president of the Constitutional council the February 27th 2004 by the president of the Republic
• December 12th, 2005: elected official member of the Academy of Science morals and political
• He is member of the Académie of the Sports.
• 2007: chair association " The Mountain for 2018" , association whose objective is to promote near the Olympic and sporting National committee French (CNOSF) the idea of a French candidature for the organization of the OJ of winter 2018 between Annecy, Gap and Grenoble.
• It was elected President of the Foundation Charles de Gaulle in January 2007.
• July 18th, 2007: appointed vice-president of the Committee of reflection on the modernization and the rebalancing of the institutions by the president of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy. This committee brings together politicians and constitutionnalists of different backgrounds. It will have three months to work out proposals, in the line of the speech which the president of the Republic made on July 12th, 2007 with Épinal.

Decorations

• Commander of the Legion of honor
• Officer of the sporting Merit

Quotations

• “the respect of the Constitution is not a risk but a duty. ”