Pierre Marcilhacy

Pierre Marcilhacy (14 February 1910 Jarnac, Charente – 6 July 1987) was a French politician.

He was a Senator for the Charente, sitting in the Democratic Left group.

He ran against Charles de Gaulle in the French presidential election, 1965 for the European Liberal Party, a small centrist liberal group. He won 1.71% and was thus eliminated; and sided with François Mitterrand, who happened to be born in the same town, Jarnac, in the runoff.

Marcilhacy is thus remembered as one of a number of widely diverse candidates — from both the left and the right — who stood against de Gaulle in 1965.

He lost his Senate seat in 1981 but entered the Constitutional Council of France in 1983.

Death

He died in 1987.