Joseph Marie Benoît François Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin[1][unreliable source?]
(born 14 March 1926 in Brussels, Belgium – 30 October 2014), simply known as Xavier de Villepin, was a former high-ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party (and before that from the more centrist UDF party).
He became a member of the Association of French Citizens Abroad (Union des Français de l'Étranger) in 1960, and its 2nd vice-president in 1979.
[2] In 1993 he was elected chairman of the French Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Armed Forces (Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées).
He resigned from the committee in 2002 following the appointment of his son Dominique de Villepin as Minister of Foreign Affairs.