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Marc Fiacre Henri Blondel (2 May 1938 – 16 March 2014) was a French trade union leader.

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Born in Courbevoie, Blondel grew up with his mother in Hénin-Liétard, while his father was active in the French Resistance. After the war, the family reunited in Paris, and Blondel went to secondary school in Nanterre, where he joined the Socialist Youth. He then went to study law while taking various part-time jobs, and one of these led him to join the Trade Union Federation of PTT Workers, part of Workers' Force (FO).^[1][2]

Blondel campaigned for Algerian independence, and this led him to join the Autonomous Socialist Party.

However, he disagreed with its merger into the Unified Socialist Party and so left political activity. Instead, he became active in the Grand Orient de France, becoming prominent in left-wing freemasonry.^[1]

In 1960, Blondel began working for ASSEDIC, where he formed a network of union branches. This success led him