Former environmental champion Huguette Bouchardeau dies at 90

Huguette Bouchardeau, the first woman to lead a French political party, passed away at 90.

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A pioneer of French environmental politics, she shaped progressive movements since the 1970s.

Her death marks the end of a generation of pioneering activists in France.

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