Daniel Soulage (14 February 1942 – 14 September 2020) was a French politician. Soulage was born in

Monflanquin Monflanquin (; Languedocien: ''Montflanquin'') is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France. Built in 1256 as a military bastide town on a strategic north-south route, it changed hands several times during the Hundred Y ...

Lot-et-Garonne Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.Senate of France The Senate (, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly (France), National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. It is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' and ...

from 2001 to 2011, representing

Lot-et-Garonne Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

from Lot-et-Garonne's 3rd constituency. While a deputy, Soulage was a member of the

Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy ( ; UDF) was a centre-right political party in France. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over ...

. During his senatorial tenure, he joined the

Centrist Alliance The Centrist Alliance () (AC) is a centrist political party in France. It was founded in June 2009 by Jean Arthuis, a former member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and currently Member of European Parliament, where he also serves as chai ...

and caucused with the

Centrist Union The Centrist Union (, abbreviated UC) is a centrist parliamentary group in the Senate uniting members of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and Democratic Movement (MoDem), as well as the Centrist Alliance (AC), a former component of t ...

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1942 births 2020 deaths People from Monflanquin Union for French Democracy politicians Democratic Movement (France) politicians Centrist Alliance politicians Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Lot-et-Garonne French senators of the Fifth Republic Senators of Lot-et-Garonne Mayors of places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-politician-MoDem-stub