Catherine Picard

Catherine Picard (born 14 August 1952) is a French politician and anti-cultist from the French Socialist Party. She was a member of the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2002.

Career

Picard was elected on 1 June 1997 for the French Socialist Party and was responsible for public education. In 2001, together with centrist Senator Nicolas About, she drafted the About-Picard law.^[1]

In 2007, Picard was found guilty of slander against the Jehovah's Witnesses.^[1] In 2009, she became a Knight of the Legion of Honour.^[2]

Published works

Fournier, Anne; Picard, Catherine (2002). Sectes, démocratie et mondialisation. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-052569-1.

References

^ a b Eileen Barker, ed. (2010). The Centrality of Religion in Social Life. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 46–47, 60. ISBN 9781409403432.
^ "Légion d'honneur, la promotion du Nouvel An". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 17 January 2015.

External links

Official page at National Assembly website