Robert Vigouroux

Robert Vigouroux
Mayor of Marseille
In office
17 May 1986  25 June 1995
Preceded byGaston Defferre
Succeeded byJean-Claude Gaudin
Senator of Bouches-du-Rhône
In office
24 September 1989  30 September 1998
Personal details
Born
Robert Paul Vigouroux

(1923-03-21)21 March 1923
Paris, France
Died9 July 2017(2017-07-09) (aged 94)
Gardanne, France
Political partySocialist Party
EducationLycée Thiers
ProfessionNeurosurgeon

Robert Vigouroux (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ viɡuʁu]; 21 March 1923 – 9 July 2017) was a French politician and writer. He was the Mayor of Marseille (the second largest city in France) from 1986 to 1995, and a French Senator for the Bouches-du-Rhône from 1989 to 1998.