What is Raymond Barre?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Raymond Barre |image = Raymond Barre 1980 (cropped 2).jpg |office = [[Prime Minister of France]] |president = [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] |term_start = 26 August 1976 |term_end = 22 May 1981 |predecessor = [[Jacques Chirac]] |successor = [[Pierre Mauroy]] |office1 = [[Mayor (France)|Mayor]] of [[Lyon]] |term_start1 = 25 June 1995 |term_end1 = 25 March 2001 |predecessor1 = [[Michel Noir]] |successor1 = [[Gérard Collomb]] |office2 = [[French Ministry for the Economy and Finance|Minister of the Economy and Finance]] |primeminister2 = ''Himself'' |term_start2 = 27 August 1976 |term_end2 = 5 April 1978 |predecessor2 = [[Jean-Pierre Fourcade]] |successor2 = [[René Monory]] |office3 = [[French Ministry for the Economy and Finance|Minister of External Trade]] |primeminister3 = [[Jacques Chirac]] |term_start3 = 12 January 1976 |term_end3 = 25 August 1976 |predecessor3 = Norbert Ségard |successor3 = [[André Rossi]] |office4 = [[European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro|European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs]] |president4 = [[Jean Rey (politician)|Jean Rey]]<br />[[Franco Maria Malfatti]]<br />[[Sicco Mansholt]] |term_start4 = 7 February 1967 |term_end4 = 5 January 1973 |predecessor4 = [[Robert Marjolin]] |successor4 = [[Wilhelm Haferkamp]] |birth_name = Raymond Octave Joseph Barre |birth_date = {{birth date|1924|4|12|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Saint-Denis, Réunion|St-Denis]], [[French Third Republic|France]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2007|8|25|1924|4|12|df=y}} |death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] |party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] }} '''Raymond Octave Joseph Barre''' ({{IPA-fr|ʁɛmɔ̃ baʁ|lang}}; 12 April 1924{{spaced ndash}}25 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a [[Vice President of the European Commission]] and [[European Commissi