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substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2008–2013); Senator of the French Fifth Republic (1997–2023); president (1996–2014); Mayor of Saint-Nizier-de-Fornas (1989–2001)."}],"related":[{"name":"Abdullah Gül","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdullah-gul"},{"name":"Max Brauer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/max-brauer"},{"name":"Adolf Spies von Büllesheim","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-spies-von-bullesheim"},{"name":"Alfred Gusenbauer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-gusenbauer"},{"name":"Jean-François Mattei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jean-francois-mattei"},{"name":"Yvon Bourges","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yvon-bourges"},{"name":"Cevdet Yılmaz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cevdet-ylmaz"},{"name":"Farkhad Akhmedov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/farkhad-akhmedov"},{"name":"Vadym Novynskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vadym-novynskyi"},{"name":"Petro Poroshenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/petro-poroshenko"},{"name":"Didier Guillaume","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/didier-guillaume"},{"name":"Jean-Paul Alduy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jean-paul-alduy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/bernard-fournier-273e0e3448.jpg","width":235,"height":314,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"C.lattka","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernard_Fournier.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Bernard Fournier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fournier","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q2897913","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897913","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Bernard Fournier.jpg by C.lattka (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernard_Fournier.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Bernard Fournier, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Bernard Fournier.jpg — C.lattka, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Bernard Fournier\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/bernard-fournier. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T07:06:57Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/bernard-fournier","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/bernard-fournier","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/bernard-fournier?lang=ne"}}