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| name = Nicolas About
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| birth_date = | birth_place = France
| residence = France
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| office = Mayor
| term_start = 1977
| term_end = 2004
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| constituency = Montigny-le-Bretonneux
| office2 = Senator, French Senate
| term_start2 = September 24, 1995
| term_end2 = Incumbent
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| constituency2 = Yvelines, France
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| party = Union for French Democracy
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Nicolas About (born July 14, 1947) is a French politician from the center-right UDF party. As of 2005 he is a member of the French Senate. About was the mayor of Montigny-le-Bretonneux from 1977 to 2004. He was elected senator of Yvelines on September 24, 1995, and reelected on September 26, 2004. With Catherine Picard, he helped draft the About-Picard law on June 12, 2001.