Editing Maurice Papon (section)

==Early life and education==
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Papon was born in [[Gretz-Armainvilliers]], [[Seine-et-Marne]], the son of a [[solicitor]] who became an [[industrialist]]. In 1919, when Papon was nine years old, his father was elected mayor in the ''commune'' and held that office until 1937. His father was also local representative (''conseiller général'') of [[Tournan-en-Brie]] and president of the canton's council in 1937.

Papon studied at the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]], in Paris.  Fellow students at the elite school were [[Georges Pompidou]], later President of France, and René Brouillet, who would join [[Charles de Gaulle]]'s cabinet after the war. Papon entered [[Sciences-Po]], the specialty university for future civil servants and politicians, and he studied law, psychology and sociology.