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René Tinant (; born August 1, 1982 in Cauroy, Ardennes, France) is a French politician.

First activities
With a simple certificate of primary education, René Tinant performed his military service in 1934-35 at Air Force Base 112 in Reims. Upon his return, he worked as a farmer, taking over the family farm. Engaged on , he was posted to the French military weather station at Fort Saint-Cyr, until the beginning. He was then requisitioned for agricultural work in the Midi de la France.

At the Liberation, he successfully began a local political career. Mayor of his hometown of Cauroy from 1945 to 1983, he was elected as general councillor of the Township of Machault, and was subsequently regularly re-elected as representative. However, he failed twice in the parliamentary elections, as a candidate of the People's Republican Movement (PRM), in 1951 and 1956.

Senator of the Ardennes

He was elected senator in 1959, second on the MRP list, behind outgoing senator Marie-Hélène Cardot, obtaining more votes than outgoing independent senator Eugene Cuif. He was re-elected in 1962. In 1971, he led the Democratic Centre's list and was elected along with his packager Maurice Blin. In 1980, they were both re-elected as candidates of the majority.

In the High Assembly, in the Palace of Luxembourg, he sits on the Senate Group of the Centralist Union of Progress Democrats (UCDP), and is very active, both in committee and in plenary. It intervenes on numerous legislative proposals, the status of New Caledonia, the development of French hydraulic potential or the status of certain air navigation personnel. It also belongs to several friendship groups: France-Belgium, France-USSR, France-West Africa, France-Hungary, France-Netherlands, France-Japan or France-Cyprus. A member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs, he served as Vice-Chairman between 1960 and 1964 and as Secretary in 1983 and 1984. He participated in discussions on the administrative, financial and technical management of the meeting of national lyrical theatres, the status of French television broadcasting or the control of publications intended for children and adolescents. He also intervenes for the industrial activity of his department: for example the , he pleads for rapid and effective measures to convert workers' jobs, following the difficulties of metallurgy in the Meuse valley.

With regard to national policy, and the decisive laws on the evolution of the country and the choices of society, it usually takes a moderate position tinted with conservatism. Under Charles de Gaulle's presidency, he passed the law of the 17th century, which allowed the Government to proceed by order to take measures to maintain the