Marcel Rigout

{{Short description|French politician}}

{{ infobox officeholder

| name = Marcel Rigout

| office = Minister of Vocational Training

| term_start = 1981

| term_end = 1984

| president = François Mitterrand

| primeminister = Pierre Mauroy

| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|5|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Verneuil-sur-Vienne, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|8|23|1928|5|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Limoges, France

| nationality = French

| party = French Communist Party

}}

Marcel Rigout (10 May 1928 – 23 August 2014){{cite web|title=L'ancien ministre communiste Marcel Rigout est mort|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2014/08/24/l-ancien-ministre-communiste-marcel-rigout-est-mort_4475900_3382.html|website=lemonde.fr|accessdate=24 August 2014|language=French}} was a French politician. He served as Minister of Vocational Training from 1981 to 1984, under former President François Mitterrand.Maxwell Adereth, The French Communist party: a critical history (1920–1984), from Comintern to "the colours of France", Manchester University Press ND, 1984, p. 263 [https://books.google.com/books?id=MHu7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263]Laird Boswell, Rural communism in France, 1920–1939, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998, p. 35 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ImuQi0ZLNeUC&pg=PA35]David Scott Bell, François Mitterrand: a political biography, Polity, 2005, p.92 [https://books.google.com/books?id=BHjQLW8n8_0C&pg=PA92] From an early age, he was a member of the French Communist Party.Moya Longstaffe, Heroism and passion in literature: studies in honour of Moya Longstaffe, Rodopi, 2004, p.263 [https://books.google.com/books?id=pwxoZitM2KAC&pg=PA263]Communisme 87 - Regards Sur Le Communisme Britanique, L'age d'homme, p.191 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ReTc5qCdjlgC&pg=PA191]Joseph P. Morray, Grand disillusion: François Mitterrand and the French left, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, p. 126 [https://books.google.com/books?id=r4fiz4x1oKYC&pg=PA126] To improve vocational skills, while serving as a government minister, Rigout helped to set up some 800 centres called either PAIO or missions locales between 1982 and 1984 where youngsters were provided with vocational guidance.{{cite book|title=The French Education System|author=Lewis, H.D.|date=1985|publisher=Croom Helm|isbn=9780709916833|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3s9AAAAIAAJ|page=95|accessdate=22 February 2015}}