David Assouline

David Assouline (born 16 June 1959) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2004, representing the city of Paris. He is simultaneously a councillor for the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

David Assouline
Member of the French Senate for Paris
Assumed office
26 September 2004
Personal details
Born (1959-06-16) 16 June 1959
Sefrou, Morocco
NationalityFrench and Moroccan
Political partySocialist Party

Political career

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Assouline endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[1]

Other activities

Assouline is a board member of the France 2 television network and a member of the Digital Dividend Commission (Commission du dividende numérique),[2] 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 978-2-84146-320-6
  • 1996, Vol. 2: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (1919–1945), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2-910780-01-2
  • 1997, Vol. 3: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (de 1945 à nos jours), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2-84146-472-2
  • 2001: A propos d’octobre 1961, Au Nom de la Mémoire

Notes
  1. Primaire PS: 39 sénateurs PS apportent leur soutien à Aubry Le Point, 13 October 2011.
  2. Rapport de la Commission du dividende numérique au Premier Ministre Archived 2008-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, July 2008, 82 pages (in French)
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