Catherine Tasca

Catherine Tasca (born December 13, 1941 in Lyon ) is a French politician . She has represented the Yvelines department in the Senate since 2004 and has been its vice-president since October 2008.

Life

Tasca was born in 1941 as the youngest daughter of Angelo Tascas . Her mother was a city administration clerk. Her father left her in November 1944 to solicit another woman to be Catherine's mother. Tasca graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1967 from the École nationale d'administration .

Career

Tasca initially worked in the field of culture. She began her career under André Malraux at Maisons de la Culture before becoming director of their branch in Grenoble in 1973 . 1977 moved to the national institution for art dissemination. From 1978 to 1982 she was general of the Ensemble intercontemporain of Pierre Boulez ; in the following four years she worked as co-director with Patrice Chéreau at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre . Then François Mitterrand nominated for the Commission nationale de la communication et des libertés , where she stayed until 1989. From 1993 to 1997 she was a consultant to André Rousselet at Canal + .

Political activity

She was a member of the Parti socialiste unifié before rejoining the Parti socialiste . She is a member of the Le Siècle Club .

In June 1997 she was elected to the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of the Yvelines department. Her deputy was Guy Malandain , the mayor of Trappes . From 2000 to 2002 she was Minister for Culture and Communication in the Jospin cabinet .

literature

Catherine Tasca , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/2002 of September 30, 2002, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

supporting documents

^ Emanuel Rota: A pact with Vichy: Angelo Tasca from Italian socialism to French collaboration . Fordham University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8232-4564-2 , p. 196.
↑ Alexander J. De Grand, In Stalin's Shadow: Angelo Tasca and the Crisis of the Left in Italy and France, 1910–1945 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986).

personal data
SURNAME	Tasca, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician (PS)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lyon

[1] Emanuel Rota: A pact with Vichy: Angelo Tasca from Italian socialism to French collaboration . Fordham University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8232-4564-2 , p. 196.

[2] Alexander J. De Grand, In Stalin's Shadow: Angelo Tasca and the Crisis of the Left in Italy and France, 1910–1945 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986).