Lecanuet dies

Tuesday 23 February 1993 00:02 GMT

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PARIS (Reuter) - Jean Lecanuet, the French politician who forced General Charles de Gaulle into a run-off in the 1965 presidential elections, died after a long illness, aged 72. He helped to found the centre-right Union for French Democracy (UDF) party, was a long-serving senator, mayor of his home town, Rouen, and justice minister in Jacques Chirac's government in 1974.

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