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Barre, Raymond

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Barre, Raymond (bär), 1924–, French politician. He studied at the Institut D'Études Politiques, taught, and then, in 1959, became an economic adviser to the government of Charles de Gaulle de Gaulle, Charles (shärl də gōl)
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. In 1976, he became minister of foreign trade and then succeeded Jacques Chirac Chirac, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` shēräk`)
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 as premier, serving from 1976 to 1981. Although he was a right-wing politician who pursued an austere economic program, Barre was a popular leader. He was elected to the national assembly in 1978 as a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF). In 1988 Barre placed third in the presidential election, behind François Mitterrand Mitterrand, François Maurice (fräNswä` mōrēs` mētəräN`)
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 and Chirac. He was elected mayor of Lyons, France in 1995.

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When I first heard about "La peinture apres l'abstraction," documenting work done in Paris between 1955 and 1975 by five artists as unlike as Simon Hantai, Jean Degottex, Martin Barre, Raymond Hains, and Jacques de la Villegle, I thought the project utterly crackpot.
 
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