Jacques Sauvageot

Jacques Sauvageot (16 April 1943 in Dijon – 28 October 2017 in Paris) was a French politician and art historian.

He was a member of the student branch of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU),[3] and vice-president of UNEF,[4] de facto exercising the role of president without having the title.

In July 1967, he participated with Alain Krivine in an internship organized by students from the new University of Nanterre in the rural site of the Lycée Saint-Joseph de Bressuire in Deux-Sèvres.

[5] The UNEF subsequently played a leading role in the junction of the labor and student movements during the great demonstration of 13 May 1968, and on 27 May during the rally at Charléty stadium of the non-communist protestor left.

His notoriety grew rapidly, and he therefore played, notably with Alain Geismar and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, an important role in the expression of demands and the organization of the movement.

In December of the same year 1968, during the Marseille congress, the student organization, although divided between several tendencies, elected Jacques Sauvageot as its president.