Robert Fabre (; 21 December 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue,

Aveyron Aveyron (; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron (river), Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyro ...

– 23 December 2006 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue,

) was a French politician and pharmacist. He was a founding member of the Left Radical Movement (MRG) in 1972 and served as the leader of the MRG until 1978. In this capacity, he became known as the "third man" - the third signatory of the Common Programme of the Union of the Left with

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( PS) and Georges Marchais ( PCF). He was himself excluded from the party in 1979 when he accepted a special research mission on work offered to him by right-wing President

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. He founded the Federation of Radical Democracy, but the party never achieved significant success. He also was mayor of Villefranche-de-Rouergue from 1953 to 1983. He died in 2006, shortly after the death of

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, his rival within the Radical-Socialist Party. Servan-Schreiber has been the leader of the right wing of the Radical Party.

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