Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Lionel Jospin was born to a Protestant family in Meudon , a suburb of Paris. He is the son of Robert Jospin. He attended the Lyce JansondeSailly before studying at the Institut dtudes politiques de Paris and the cole nationale dadministration . He was active in the UNEF students union, protesting against the war in Algeria . He completed his military service as an officer in charge of armoured training in Trier .
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