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{{Short description|Central Africa Republic economist and politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Marie-Reine Hassen
{{Infobox officeholder
| embed = yes
| office             = [[Central African Republic Council of Ministers#Members of the Council of Ministers|Minister Delegate for Regional Development]]
| term = 2008 - 2009
| president   = [[François Bozizé]]
| office1             = [[Central African Republic Council of Ministers#Members of the Council of Ministers|Minister Delegate for the Economy, Planning and International Cooperation]]
| term1 = 2007 - 2008
| president1   = [[François Bozizé]]
| office2             = [[Central African Republic Council of Ministers#Members of the Council of Ministers|Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs]]
| term2 = 2006 - 2007
| president2   = [[François Bozizé]]
| office3           = [[Central African Republic|Central African]] [[Goodwill Ambassador]] to [[Senegal]]
| term3 = 2003 - 2006
| president3   = [[François Bozizé]]
}}
| birth_name      =
| birth_date      = 1954
| birth_place     = [[Alindao|Alindaho]], [[Basse-Kotto]], [[Ubangi-Shari]], [[French Equatorial Africa]]
| spouse          =  [[Bokassa I]]
| house = [[House of Bokassa|Bokassa]] (by marriage)
| father          = Mr. Hassen
}}
'''Marie-Reine Hassen''' (born 1954 in [[Alindao|Alindaho]]), is an economist, diplomat and politician from the [[Central African Republic]]. She was one of the 17 wives of [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]], CAR dictator. She was a goodwill ambassador in Senegal from 2003 to 2006, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2007, Minister Delegate for the Economy, Planning and International Cooperation from 2007 to 2008, and then Minister Delegate for Regional Development from 2008 to 2009. She founded the Movement for Rallying and Change. She was a candidate for her country's 2010 presidential election.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/184132/politique/pr-sidentielle-marie-reine-hassen-une-femme-contre-boziz/|title=Présidentielle : Marie-Reine Hassen, une femme contre Bozizé – JeuneAfrique.com|date=18 November 2010|work=JeuneAfrique.com|access-date=8 November 2017|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://africa1.com/spip.php?article17427|title=Le Grand Débat du Mardi 27 decembre 2011 – Radio Africa N°1|website=africa1.com|language=fr|access-date=8 November 2017}}</ref>
== Biography ==
Marie-Reine Hassen was born to a Central African [[Mestizo|Métis]] father, a former civil administrator of France in the Overseas Territories and Minister of the Government of David Dacko.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEPbRmivj7IC&q=Brian+Titley%2C+Dark+Age%3A+The+Political+Odyssey+of+Emperor+Bokassa%2C+McGill-Queen%E2%80%99s+University+Press%2C+1997|title=Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa|last=Titley|first=Brian|date=2002|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|isbn=9780773524187|language=en}}</ref> He was also a teacher by profession, one of the first in the Central African Republic. After the coup d'état of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, her father was locked up for six years and then fled during a visit to France. The rest of her family tried to flee to [[Cameroon]] but was captured and imprisoned at the [[Ngaragba Central Prison]] when she was only 14 years old.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lejdd.fr/International/Afrique/FEMMES-DU-MONDE-les-sept-vies-de-Marie-Reine-Hassan-candidate-a-la-presidence-de-la-Centrafrique-644901|title=Les sept vies de Marie-Reine Hassan|publisher=JDD|date=20 December 2013|access-date=8 November 2017|language=fr-FR}}</ref>
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