Segolene Royal Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Marie-Segolene Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal), known as Segolene Royal is a French politician. She is the President of the Poitou-Charentes region, a member of the National Assembly, and a prominent member of the Socialist Party. On 16 November 2006, Socialist Party members elected her as their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. She is known for her admiration for some of Tony Blair's Third Way politics, for her controversial insistence on law and order issues and for her support of devolution and participatory democracy.Segolene Royal is a graduate of the elite Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA) along with much of France's political elite, and was in the same class as Dominique de Villepin. Since the late 1970s, Segolene Royal has been the private-life partner of Francois Hollande, currently first secretary of the French Socialist Party, whom she met at ENA. The couple has four children. While not married, they are bound by the PACS (pacte civil de solidarite), which provides for a civil union between two adults, regardless of gender.* 3 April 1992 - 29 March 1993, Minister of the Environment. * 4 June 1997 - 27 March 2000, Vice-Minister for Education. * 27 March 2000 - 27 March 2001, Vice-Minister for Family and Childhood. * 28 March 2001 - 5 May 2002, Vice-Minister for Family and Childhood and Handicapped Persons. * 13 June 1988 - 2 May 1992, deputy for Deux-Sevres. * 2 April 1993 - 21 April 1997, deputy for Deux-Sevres. * 1 June 1997 -4 July 1997, deputy for Deux-Sevres. * June 2002 - present, deputy for Deux-Sevres