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Jean-Paul Jauffret | |
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Nationality | French |
Other names | JPJ |
Occupation(s) | Vintner Deputy mayor of Bordeaux |
Known for | Tennis player Businessman President of CIVB |
Spouse(s) | Huguette Jauffret, born Dourthe (1952-2020) |
Relatives | François Jauffret (brother) Loïc Courteau (nephew) |
Awards | Légion d'honneur National Order of Merit |
Jean-Paul Jauffret (born August 22, 1930 in Bordeaux) is a French businessman, politician and tennis player, eldest son of a well-known French tennis family.[1][2]
Jauffret was several times world veteran team champion and French cadet champion in 1946.
He is one of the most respected figures of Bordeaux wine[3] during the 2nd half of the 20th century. He devotes an important part of his life to the wine industry: among other things, he runs the wine trading house CVBG-Dourthe-Kressmann and creates in 1981 the Vinexpo exhibition.[4][5] He is elected president of the CIVB and later elected Perpetual member of the Bordeaux Wine Academy.
He also got involved in politics and in 1995 he becomes Alain Juppé's finance assistant at the Bordeaux town hall, after which the city benefits from a better financial situations and decreases its own debt[1] and subsequently gets closer to the wine industry,[6] by relaunching the wine festival in 1998, which has been abandoned since 1909.[7]
Professional career
edit- CEO of the wine trading house CVBG-Dourthe-Kressmann
- President of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council
- Honorary President of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council
- 1981 : Creates the Vinexpo exhibition, worldwide exhibition taking place every second year in the city of Bordeaux.[1]
- 1981-1996 : President of Vinexpo.
- since 1996 : Honorary President of Vinexpo, of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council and the Banque Populaire du Sud-Ouest local bank.
- 1995-2007: President of the mixed economy company Gaz de Bordeaux (Bordeaux Gas).[8]
Sports career
edit- Veteran Team World Champion
- Cadet French Champion (1953)
- President of Guyenne's tennis league[10]
- Member of the Federal Arbitration Commission of the French Tennis Federation
Electoral mandates
edit- 1995-2008 : Deputy mayor of Bordeaux, in charge of public finance and budget.
- Judge at the commercial court of Bordeaux.
During the 2006 elections, he gets a vote from the Socialist Party-Communist Party opposition.[11]
Personal life
editJean-Paul Jauffret is the brother of François Jauffret, professional tennis player, who holds the record for selection to the France Davis Cup team. He is a nine-time France Champion and wins several international titles in the '60s and '70s. His nephew Loïc Courteau has been the trainer of Amélie Mauresmo and Julien Benneteau.
He is married to Huguette Dourthe and father of four girls.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Jean-Paul Jauffret". lesechos.fr (in French). 28 January 2003. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Villa Primrose Bordeaux - L'histoire de la Villa Primrose Bordeaux". www.villaprimrose.com. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Kauffmann, Vladimir. "CVBG Dourthe-Kressmann : Bordeaux N°1". Revue Vinicole Internationale – RVI (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Vincent Noce (17 November 2000). "Sous le signe du tonneau". liberation.fr (in French). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ Maurice Beaudoin (20 June 2009). "Bordeaux : le rendez-vous des vins du monde entier". lefigaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ Noce, Vincent (2000-11-17). "Sous le signe du tonneau". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Olivier Costa (15 December 2005). "Un régime sectoriel, le territoire et le travail politique : le cas du Conseil interprofessionnel des vins de Bordeaux" (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Gaz de Bordeaux se repose sur la ville". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Xavier Dorsemaine (24 October 2012). "Les Jauffret, service gagnant". sudouest.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "André Marion". www.tcbordeaux.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Figaro, Le (2006-10-16). "A Bordeaux, Juppé retrouve son fauteuil de maire". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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