Ministry of Culture (France)

The Palais Royal in Paris, seat of the Ministry

The Ministry of Culture ( French Ministère de la Culture ) has been an authority of the French central government since 1959 . From 1997 to 2017 it was called the Ministry of Culture and Communication ( French Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication ). The seat is the Palais Royal in the Rue de Valois in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. In political parlance and in the press, the ministry is therefore also metonymically called “rue de Valois”. Franck Riester has been Minister since October 2018 , his predecessor was Françoise Nyssen since May 2017 .

Responsibilities

In the French unitary state , the central government is responsible for culture. The ministry deals with the nation's cultural treasures. It employs 10,928 people. In contrast to corresponding ministries in German-speaking countries, the ministry is only responsible for culture and the media, but not for school or university education, with the exception of a brief phase in the Bérégovoy government , in which Jack Lang was Minister of State for Education and Culture.

Since the Fifth Republic under Charles de Gaulle and through its first minister, André Malraux, it has promoted and preserved the country's cultural heritage . With a budget of around 7.4 billion euros, it is responsible for language, literature, painting, museums, music, theater, dance, monuments, film, libraries and archives. The decree conceived by Malraux states: "To make the most important works of art of mankind, first and foremost those of France, accessible to the largest possible number of French, to create the largest possible audience for France's cultural heritage and to create works that promote art and the Enrich and promote the spirit. "

In the archives area , it maintains the National Archives . In the libraries sector , it is responsible for the national library with its 17 million books and 4,200 other libraries. The Ministry of Culture promotes French film through the national film center and maintains an archive of 20,000 films (from 1883). It promotes music through the Fête de la Musique (since 1982) and maintains the Center de documentation de la musique contemporaine (CDMC), a documentation about contemporary music.

It protects around 200,000 monuments and makes them accessible on the Internet through the Base Mérimée . It promotes dance and theater and, through another database, makes 1000 plays available. The Ministry of Culture maintains the national museums and makes their holdings accessible through Base Joconde with around 400,000 entries. Together with the regions, it promotes the visual arts through the regional funds for contemporary art . It awards awards such as the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

It is also responsible for literature through the Center national des livres and maintains the French language as well as the languages ​​of France . It maintains a database of the 390,000 holders of the Order of the Legion of Honor ( Base Léonore ) .

The French Ministry of Culture has no equivalent in Switzerland and in Germany only a partial equivalent with the Minister of State for Culture and Media in the Chancellery . For Austria there is a partial agreement with the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture .

minister

Surname	Taking office	End of office	Political party	government	Remarks
André Malraux	January 8, 1959	20th June 1969	UD-V e or UDR	Debré Pompidou I Pompidou II Pompidou III Pompidou IV Couve de Murville
Edmond Michelet	June 22, 1969	October 9, 1970	UDR	Chaban-Delmas
André Bettencourt	19th October 1970	7th January 1971	FNRI	Chaban-Delmas	Interim after Michelet's death
Jacques Duhamel	7th January 1971	March 28, 1973	CDP	Chaban-Delmas Messmer I.
Maurice Druon	5th April 1973	February 27, 1974	independent	Messmer II
Alain Peyrefitte	March 1, 1974	May 27, 1974	UDR	Messmer III	Minister for Culture and the Environment
Michel Guy	June 9, 1974	August 25, 1976	independent	Chirac I	State Secretary
Françoise Giroud	August 28, 1976	March 29, 1977	PRad	Barre I	State Secretary
Michel d'Ornano	March 29, 1977	March 31, 1978	PR	Barre II	Minister for Culture and the Environment
Jean-Philippe Lecat	April 5th 1978	March 4th 1981	RPR	Barre III	First minister with the title Culture and Communication
Michel d'Ornano	March 4th 1981	May 13, 1981	UDF - PR	Barre III	Interim after Lecat's resignation
Jack Lang	May 22, 1981	March 20, 1986	PS	Mauroy I Mauroy II Mauroy III Fabius	Title again just culture ; in the cabinets of Mauroy III and Fabius (until December 7, 1984) only minister commissioned
François Léotard	March 20, 1986	May 10, 1988	UDF - PR	Chirac II	Title Culture and Communication
Jack Lang	May 12, 1988	March 29, 1993	PS	Rocard I Rocard II Cresson Bérégovoy	Titulature in Rocard II culture, communication, great works and bicentenary , in Bérégovoy Minister of State for Education and Culture
Jacques Toubon	March 30, 1993	May 11, 1995	RPR	Balladur	Minister for Culture and Francophonie
Philippe Douste-Blazy	May 18, 1995	June 2, 1997	UDF - CDS or FD	Juppe I Juppe II	Titulature culture
Catherine Trautmann	June 4th 1997	March 27, 2000	PS	Jospin	Title Culture and Communication
Catherine Tasca	March 27, 2000	May 6, 2002	PS	Jospin
Jean-Jacques Aillagon	May 7, 2002	March 30, 2004	UMP	Raffarin I Raffarin II
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres	March 31, 2004	May 15, 2007	UMP	Raffarin III de Villepin
Christine Albanel	May 18, 2007	June 23, 2009	UMP	Fillon I Fillon II
Frédéric Mitterrand	June 23, 2009	May 10, 2012	independent	Fillon II Fillon III
Aurélie Filippetti	May 16, 2012	August 25, 2014	PS	Ayrault I Ayrault II Valls I
Fleur Pellerin	August 26, 2014	February 11, 2016	PS	Valls II
Audrey Azoulay	February 11, 2016	17th May 2017	independent	Valls II Cazeneuve
Françoise Nyssen	15th May 2017	October 2018	independent	Philippe I Philippe II	Titulature culture
Franck Riester	October 2018	officiating	Agir	Philippe II

Web links

Commons : Ministry of Culture (France)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ministry website (French / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the website of the French Ministry of Finance (French) ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 20, 2013 
2. ↑ Official Ministry figures , accessed August 2, 2012
3. ^ Wolfgang Asholt: Culture and Society. in: Adolf Kimmel / Henrik Uterwedde (ed.): Country report France. 2nd edition, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2005, pp. 154–170, here p. 155.

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