Jean-Pierre Defontaine (4 February 1937 – 1 January 2022) was a French politician. A member of the

Radical Party of the Left The Radical Party of the Left (, PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition, since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (, PS). Af ...

, he served Pas-de-Calais's 1st constituency from 1978 to 2007. He also served as President of the football club

RC Lens Racing Club de Lens (), commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply as Lens, is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the department of Pas-de-Calais. The club's nickname, ''Les Sang et Or'' (), comes from i ...

from 1976 to 1979. In 2015, a multipurpose venue was named after him in

Hénin-sur-Cojeul Hénin-sur-Cojeul () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France southeast of Arras. Population See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References ...

. Defontaine died on 1 January 2022, at the age of 82.

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