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Franck Sérusclat
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Franck André Sérusclat (7 July 1921 in Sarras, Ardèche – 2 July 2006) was a French politician. He was a long-serving mayor and member of the French senate for the Rhône department.
He was married first to Cécile Pasquier (died ), then to Paule Sassard.
Sérusclat was born in Sarras, Ardèche, where his father had settled to become a teacher, after World War I. His first and middle names are those of his uncles who were killed in the war.
His secondary education was at the Lycée de Privas, whence he went to the Faculty of Pharmacy at Lyon, where he started a deep friendship with André Boucherle. He was awarded his diploma on 27 March 1947. He worked as a monitor in the Department of Toxicology, and wrote his thesis under the direction of Marc Chambon. He became an assistant in the Lyon police's forensic lab, which had been set up in 1910 by Edmond Locard. He worked there over thirty years, becoming assistant director, and then director.
At the end of December 1949. he opened a pharmacy (dispensing chemist) at Saint-Fons, where he trained many other pharmacists. He was an active participant in the central Fédération des Syndicats Pharmaceutiques de France (FSPF), and in the local Rhône chapter.
He became actively involved in politics. In 1955, he created with André Boucherle the comité lyonnais du mouvement pour les États-Unis d'Europe ("Lyon movement for a United States of Europe"). He organized meetings and exchanges with other European pharmacists' organizations. Always rather provocative, he took a position for the legalization of cannabis, at a time when its use was negligible compared to that of alcohol or tobacco. However, the toxicity of cannabis, and its causation of accidents, had perhaps been underestimated.
Sérusclat always had a great interest in education and public information. Convinced of the use of information technology in schools, in 2000 he published . He wanted every student to have a computer.
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He was a member of the Société de Pharmacie de Lyon for over fifty years.
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