David Assouline
Encyclopedia
David Assouline is a member of the Senate of France, representing the city of Paris
. First elected to the Senate on 26 September 2004, he is a member of the Socialist Party
. He is simultaneously a councillor
for the 20th arrondissement of Paris
.
Assouline is a board member of the France 2
television network and a member of the Digital Dividend Commission (Commission du dividende numérique), which recommended reallocation of frequencies made available by the ending of analogue broadcasting. Previously he has served as a member of the French Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and as a member of the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Délégation aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes).
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. First elected to the Senate on 26 September 2004, he is a member of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...
. He is simultaneously a councillor
Municipal council
A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term...
for the 20th arrondissement of Paris
Council of Paris
The Council of Paris is the deliberative body responsible for the governing of Paris, the capital of France. It possesses simultaneously the powers of a Paris City Council and those of a General Council for the Département de Paris, as defined by the so-called PLM Law of 1982 that redefined the...
.
Assouline is a board member of the France 2
France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...
television network and a member of the Digital Dividend Commission (Commission du dividende numérique), which recommended reallocation of frequencies made available by the ending of analogue broadcasting. Previously he has served as a member of the French Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and as a member of the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Délégation aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes).
Works (with Mehdi Lallaoui)
Assouline is a historian who has written a 3-volume survey of France's relationship with its immigrants. However, he is best known for his work on the harsh repression of Algerians living in France during the Algerian War.- Un siècle d’immigration , Au Nom de la Mémoire (ANM)
- 1996, Vol. 1: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (1851–1918), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2841463206
- 1996, Vol. 2: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (1919–1945), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2910780012
- 1997, Vol. 3: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (de 1945 à nos jours), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2841464722
- 2001: A propos d’octobre 1961, Au Nom de la Mémoire