Alice Saunier-Seité

Alice Louise Saunier-Seïté (26 April 1925 – 4 August 2003) was a French geographer, historian, university professor and politician of the Parti Républicain.

[1] Alice Louise Saunier attended the Lycée de Tournon where she came into contact with the French Resistance movement.

[1] On 28 August 1976, Saunier-Seïté was appointed State Secretary for Universities in the first cabinet of prime minister Raymond Barre under the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

[3] After leaving government, Saunier-Seïté served as a professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) between 1981 and 1994 and was the first woman to take up a chair at this renowned school.

[4] In addition to her teaching and political career, Alice Saunier-Seïté wrote books that dealt with geographical and historical topics.