Achille Peretti (politician)

Achille Peretti (13 June 1911 – 14 April 1983), was a French politician.

A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the French resistance, and was in charge of security of Charles de Gaulle's government in Algiers.

A member of the French parliament from 1958 to 1977,[1] he became chairman of the National Assembly in 1969 when Jacques Chaban-Delmas was nominated as prime minister.

[2] After the right-wing coalition's narrow victory in the 1973 elections, he had to step down and was replaced by Edgar Faure.

[2] He was succeeded by Nicolas Sarkozy who had become his political protégé.