Maurice Ligot (9 December 1927 – 29 October 2022) was a French civil administrator and politician.
He was Mayor of Cholet from 1965 to 1995[1] and served as Secretary of State of Civil Service [fr] from 1976 to 1978.
Ligot began working for the Secretary-General for African and Malagasy Affairs, Jacques Foccart, one of the closest advisors of President Charles de Gaulle.
With the exception of an appointment by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as Secretary of State of Civil Service from 1976 to 1978,[3] he was a deputy of the National Assembly from 1973 to 2002.
[4] At the end of the 19th Century, Célestin Port noted that the commune of Cholet did not have a museum or a library.