Robert Fabre (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ fabʁ]; 21 December 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron[1] – 23 December 2006 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron) was a French politician and pharmacist.
In this capacity, he became known as the "third man" - the third signatory of the Common Programme of the Union of the Left with François Mitterrand (PS) and Georges Marchais (PCF).
He was himself excluded from the party in 1979 when he accepted a special research mission on work offered to him by right-wing President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
He founded the Federation of Radical Democracy, but the party never achieved significant success.
[2] He died in 2006,[3] shortly after the death of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, his rival within the Radical-Socialist Party.