A determined man
In 2015, he succeeded Admiral Christian Brac de La Perrière. With a strengthened team, Jean-Marc Lefranc aims to modernize this fine institution by diversifying its activities, while always maintaining and transmitting this duty of remembrance to all those who served.
After a career in the private sector, in 1989 he was elected mayor of Grandcamp-Maisy, the town where he was born in 1947. He held this position until 2001, then became a General Councillor for Calvados. In 1998, he was elected Regional Councillor for Bosse Normandie, a position he held until 2015. In 2002 he was elected Member of Parliament for Calvados and retired in 2012, after 10 years in office.
For 28 years he has been organizing ceremonies in honor of the Rangers who climbed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on June 6 and in 1990 was at the origin of a museum which retraces their epic.
Knight of the Legion of Honor, Knight of the Order of Maritime Merit. In 2016, in Washington DC, Jean-Marc Lefranc was decorated by Eric K. Fanning, Secretary of the Army for his services to the United States Army. He was also promoted to honorary member of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade.
