Devedjian was born in Fontainebleau , Seine-et-Marne . He is the grandson of the Armenian zoologist and Ottoman bureaucrat Karekin Deveciyan . His father was born in Sivas , Ottoman Empire and arrived in France after escaping the Armenian Genocide . Devedjian received his early education in an Armenian school in Sèvres . He continued his education at the Panthéon-Assas University , where he was a member of the far-right group Occident . He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1970 . He became a militant in the Gaullist movement in 1971 and took part in the foundation of the Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) party in 1976
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Patrick Devedjian