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Georges Marchais
Georges René Louis Marchais (June 7 1920, La Hoguette in Calvados - November 16 1997, Paris) was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF), and a candidate in the French presidential elections of 1981 - in which he managed to garner only 15.34% of the vote, which was considered at the time a major setback for the party.
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