Dumas, a Socialist, was France’s foreign minister between 1984 and 1986, and then a second time between 1988 and 1993.
After his time in government, Dumas went on to preside France’s Constitutional Council, between 1995 and 1999.
“He was a character from a novel. As a lawyer, he was talent and modesty personified. When you met him, you learnt something,” fellow lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi told AFP.
Dumas was the son of a French Resistance hero who was killed by the Gestapo during World War II. Jacques Attali, a former aide to Mitterrand, recounted that even “after seeing his father shot dead by the Nazis, he became a great actor in Franco-German relations.”
Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti saluted a man he described as “a great lawyer then a major politician and finally the president of the Constitutional Council.”
“He left his mark on the history of the Fifth Republic,” the system of government in France established in 1958, he said on X, formerly Twitter.
French political figure Roland Dumas dies at 101
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