Serge Vinçon

Serge Vinçon (17 June 1949 – 16 December 2007), was a French politician of the UMP party.

Born in Bourges, Cher, he was a college professor before a politician.

He was elected senator of Cher on 24 September 1989 and re-elected on 27 September 1998. he was also during this time a substitute for France in the European Parliament, from 1993 to 1998.

[4] Vinçon died of a brain tumor on 16 December 2007 at the hospital of Val de Grâce in Paris.

[5] Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to him in a statement, referring to a "man of letters" and "a brilliant observer of the geopolitical developments of our time" who "will be remembered as a senator who embodies all the qualities of dialogue and compromise that House requires.