Charles Hernu

| birth_place = Quimper, France | death_date = | death_place = Villeurbanne, France | nationality = French | party = Radical Party
(1947–1962)
Unified Socialist Party
(1962–1964)
Convention of Republican Institutions
(1964–1971)
Socialist Party
(1971–1990) | alma_mater = Catholic University of Leuven }}

Eugène Charles Hernu (; 3 July 1923 – 17 January 1990) was a French Socialist politician. He served as Minister of Defence from 1981 to 1985, when he was forced to resign over the bombing of the Greenpeace ship ''Rainbow Warrior'' in New Zealand. Provided by Wikipedia