Roger Quilliot

Roger Quilliot is a French politician born the June 19th 1925, with Hermaville (Pas-de-Calais), deceased the July 17th 1998 with Clermont-Ferrand. He was minister, senator and for a long time mayor of Clermont-Ferrand.

Biography

Wire of teacher, Roger Quilliot is born on June 19th, 1925 in Hermaville, in the Pas-de-Calais. After having obtained its aggregation of letters in 1949, it adheres to the socialist Students into 1946 before joining the revolutionary democratic Rassemblement founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and David Rousset. In 1950, it joined SFIO. He becomes then secretary of federation SFIO of Maine-et-Loire and city council man of Angers between 1954 and 1956. He also militates some time in Seine-et-Oise. Towards 1957-58 Mr Roger Quilliot was professor with the College Jean-Baptiste Corot de Savigny-sur-Orge (now located in the Essonne.) Its pupils - of which I was - have of him a memory of prof' and man " out of the commun". With his/her friend and “god”, Albert Camus, about which he often spoke to us, they were also friendly with the Miles Davis musician. (Music of film “elevator for the scaffold”.)

In 1963, it is named with the Faculty of Arts of Clermont-Ferrand and settles in Auvergne. He is secretary of the socialist federation of the Puy-de-Dôme of 1965 to 1974, member of the management committee of SFIO, then PS of 1963 to 1969. He enters to the municipal council of the town of Clermont-Ferrand in 1971, then is elected mayor in 1973 (it will remain it until 1997), succeeding Gabriel Montpied, mayor since the end of the Second world war. He is elected appointed, senator, and chair Association of the mayors of the big cities of France of 1977 to 1983.

Near to Gaston Defferre and Pierre Mauroy, Roger Quilliot becomes Minister for Town planning and Housing in the second government of this last (1981 - 1983). He is at the origin of the law of June 12th, 1982 which bears its name and which governs the relationship between financial backers and tenants. After the end of its mandate of minister, there remains present in the sector of housing thanks to its position of president of the National union of the federations of HLM as from 1985, station to which he is re-elected in 1988.

Arts doctor, Roger Quilliot was specialist in the work of Albert Camus of which it prepared the edition in the collection of the Pleiad.

June 25th, 1997, Roger Quillot leaves with Serge Godard the seat of mayor of Clermont-Ferrand which it occupied since 1973. July 14th, 1998, Roger Quilliot announces in an official statement the abandonment of his mandate of senator of the Puy-de-Dôme. The July 17th 1998, seriously patient, it commits suicide with Clermont-Ferrand with his wife Claire Quilliot. The latter having been saved, it repeated in August 2005 while drowning.

A museum of the Art schools bears today its name to Clermont-Ferrand.

Mandates

Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand (1973-1997)
Senator of the Puy-de-Dôme (1974 - 1998)
Minister for Town planning and Housing in the Government Pierre Mauroy (2) (1981 - 1983)
President of the Association of the mayors of the big cities of France (1977 - 1983)

Works

Sea and the prisons (1956), test on Albert Camus
the company of 1960 and political future of France (1960)
freedom with human dimensions (1967)
the SFIO and the exercise of the capacity: 1944-1958 (1972)
the Man on the bulwark (1976)
a scarf of mayor (1981)
Miseries and size of the mayors of France (1997)

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