Jean-Philippe Lecat

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Jean-Philippe Lecat (born July 29, 1935 in Dijon , Côte-d'Or ; † March 26, 2011 ) was a French politician of the Union des démocrates pour la République (UDR) and the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).

Life

After attending school, Lecat completed studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and from 1961 to 1963 at the École nationale d'administration (ENA), each of which graduated with a diploma . He then first became an employee and rapporteur at the Conseil d'État , before he became an employee in the office of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in 1967 . In 1968 he became a member of the National Assembly for the first time and was a member of the Côte-d'Or III constituency until 1972.

After Pompidou became President in June 1969 , Lecat became State Secretary for Information in the government of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and from July 1972 in the first government of Pierre Messmer , before becoming State Secretary for Economic Affairs in the second Messmer government between April and October 1973 - and Ministry of Finance, and then Messmer was Minister of Information until the end of the third government in May 1974. Between April and May 1973 he was again a member of the National Assembly. During this time he was a member of the General Council of the Canton of Nolay from 1970 to 1988 and a member of the General Council of the Département Côte-d'Or from 1973 to 1988 .

After Pompidou's death and the end of Prime Minister Messmer's term of office, he returned to the Conseil d'État, but left it after being appointed spokesman for the Élysée Palace by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1976 . In April 1978, he was culture minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Barre and kept this office until the election of the Parti Socialiste (PS) in March 1981. In addition was Lecat from April to May 1978 again as a representative of the constituency of Côte-d'Or III member of the National Assembly.

He then worked again at the Conseil d'État, before becoming President of the École nationale du patrimoine between 1990 and 1999 and at the same time President of the Board of Directors of the Académie de France à Rome in the Villa Medici in Rome .

Publications

In addition to his political work, he was also the author of several books. For Quand flamboyait la Toison d'or (1982) he received the Prix Lamartine in 1983, while he was awarded the Prix Bourgogne in 1987 for Le siècle de la Toison d'or (1986). Then the books La Bourgogne (1988) and Beaune (1996) appeared, which also appeared in German translation .

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SURNAME Lecat, Jean-Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UDR, RPR), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon , Cote-d'Or
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2011