(FILES) This file photo taken on May 30, 1969 shows PSU (Unified Socialist Party) leader and candidate for the presidential elections Michel Rocard, gesturing as delivering a speech during a rally at the Palais des Sports at the Porte de Versailles in Paris
Former French Socialist prime minister Michel Rocard died on June 2, 2016 aged 85, his son announced. Born on August 23, 1930 in the Parisian suburb of Courbevoie, Rocard attended the elite National School of Administration ENA and carved out a high-fly