David Assouline
David Assouline is a French politician of the Socialist Party 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.
Political career
In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Assouline endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
Assouline is a board member of the France 2 television network and a member of the Digital Dividend Commission ', 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 '.
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
- 1996, Vol. 1: Un siècle d'immigrations en France , 144 pp.,
- 1996, Vol. 2: Un siècle d'immigrations en France , 144 pp.,
- 1997, Vol. 3: Un siècle d'immigrations en France , 144 pp.,
- 2001: A propos d’octobre 1961, Au Nom de la Mémoire