predecessor successor birth_place party office primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name partner otherparty alma_mater
bernard frédérique bredin frédérique bredin kouchner rachida dati françois baroin alain richard fr alain drut juppé michel mercier brice hortefeux hervé morin guy villeneuve-le-roi , france union -rrb- for a popular movement -lrb- 2002 -- present minister minister of the interior minister of defence minister of youth of affairs and sports foreign and european affairs minister of justice françois de villepin Édouard balladur fillon françois fillon françois fillon jean-pierre raffarin dominique 10 september 1946 14 7 may 2002 29 march 1993 november 2010 23 june 2009 18 may 2007 michèle alliot-marie - université d'été du medef 2009.jpg michèle alliot-marie
 27 18 may 2007 18 may 1995 february 2011 13 november 2010 23 june 2009 michèle alliot-marie patrick ollier rally for the republic -lrb- before 2002 -rrb- panthéon-assas university
michèle alliot-marie

michèle jeanne honorine alliot-marie -lrb- ; born 10 september 1946 and nicknamed mam -rrb- is a french politician of the union for a popular movement -lrb- ump -rrb- .
a member of all but one right-wing governments of the 1980s , 1990s and 2000s , she was the first woman in france to hold the portfolios of defense -lrb- 2002 -- 2007 -rrb- , the interior -lrb- 2007 -- 2009 -rrb- and foreign affairs -lrb- 2010 -- 2011 -rrb- .
she has also been in charge of youth and sports -lrb- 1993 -- 1995 -rrb- and justice -lrb- 2009 -- 2010 -rrb- , and was granted the honorary rank of minister of state in her last two offices .
she resigned in 2011 after nine years in government due to her position during the tunisian revolution .
one year later , in the 2012 french legislative elections , she lost her seat as deputy -lrb- mp -rrb- for the 6th constituency of pyrénées-atlantiques to socialist party candidate in the second round , 48.38 % to alaux 's 51.62 % share of the vote .
she still remains deputy mayor of saint-jean-de-luz -lrb- since 2002 , re-elected 2008 -rrb- , as well as vice president of the union for a popular movement -lrb- ump -rrb- .
alliot-marie was the last president of the rally for the republic -lrb- 1999 -- 2002 -rrb- , the last incarnation of the gaullist party , and was the first woman to chair a major french political party .
she has remained a leading gaullist after the rpr merged into the ump and was seen as a rival to nicolas sarkozy before and after his election as president in 2007 , although direct confrontation was always avoided .
alliot-marie is a law and political science scholar .
her companion is patrick ollier , minister in charge of relations with parliament in the fillon ii government ; both were ministers simultaneously for a few months in 2010-2011 , the first time a couple ever sat in a french government .
