High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born 14 March 1926 in Brussels, Belgium), simply known as Xavier de Villepin, is a former high ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party (and before that from the more centrist UDF party). He is the father of the former Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.