Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc (born 24 September 1938 in
Boulogne-Billancourt
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,
Hauts-de-Seine
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) is a French
lawyer
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Life
From 23 April 1995 Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc served as head (vice-president) of the French
Council of State
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as vice-president up to his retirement on 25 September 2006. He was elected on 29 November 2004, into the French
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
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, in the general section. On 22 February 2007, he was appointed member of the
Constitutional Council of France
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Académie Nationale de Médecine
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Education
He was educated at
Sciences Po
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then at the . He entered the Council of State in 1964.
See also
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Law of France
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* ()
* Criminal law ()
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* Administrative law ( ...