Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard, first disabled prefect, is dead

Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard -

Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard is deceased, announced Monday evening on Twitter Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, responsible for people with disabilities.

He was 53 years old.

All my thoughts to the family of Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard who has just left us.

Ministerial Delegate for Employment and Integration (2007).

In 2012, he was appointed Prefect on the subject of exclusion, becoming the first disabled Prefect in France.

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- Sophie Cluzel (@s_cluzel) October 19, 2020

Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard, who lived in the Hérault, was an activist with people with disabilities.

In 2007, he was appointed ministerial delegate for Employment and Integration and in 2012, prefect in charge of exclusion, thus becoming the first prefect with disabilities in France.

Knight of the Legion of Honour

He was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit, and a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

He was, moreover, deacon of the Catholic Church.

Married and father of four children, Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard is a descendant of Pierre Terrail de Bayard, known as the “Chevalier Bayard”, who distinguished himself during the wars in Italy, in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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