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=== Later career and death === Messmer remained a Member of Parliament for the Moselle department until 1988, and served as President of the [[Lorraine (region)|Lorraine]] regional assembly from 1968 to 1992. He was mayor of the town of [[Sarrebourg]] from 1971 to 1989. Messmer was also president of the [[Rally for the Republic]] (RPR) parliamentary group during the first [[cohabitation (government)|cohabitation]] (1986–1988), under [[Jacques Chirac]]'s government.<ref name=Monde /> In 1997 he testified as a witness during the trial of [[Maurice Papon]], charged of [[crimes against humanity]] committed under the [[Vichy regime]], and declared: "The time has come when the Frenchmen could stop hating themselves and begin to grant pardon to themselves".<ref>French: "''Le temps est venu où les Français pourraient cesser de se haïr et commencer de se pardonner"'', quoted by Thomas Ferenczi in [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-949062,0.html?xtor=RSS-3208 Le gaulliste Pierre Messmer est mort] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908185613/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-949062,0.html?xtor=RSS-3208 |date=8 September 2007 }}, ''[[Le Monde]]'', 29 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Along with some other former Resistants, he demanded Papon's [[pardon]] in 2001.<ref name=Monde /> He died in 2007 aged 91, just four days after fellow Prime Minister [[Raymond Barre]]. He was the last surviving major French Politician to have been a member of the Free French forces.
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