Christine Albanel

Christine Marie Albanel is a senior official and French political woman born on June 25th, 1955 with Toulouse.

She is since May 2007, Minister for the Culture and Transport in the government Francois Fillon 1 (renewed in the government Francois Fillon 2).

Biography

Origin and formation

Christine Albanel follows studies of letters and obtains aggregation in modern letters. Presented by her cousin, Jean-Bernard Mérimée, then Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps to the Elys3ee palace, it becomes of 1979 with 1981, the press attaché of Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing, as a mission leader with the general secretary of the Elysium.

After May 1981, it integrates manpower of secondary education and during the school year 1981-1982 occupies a station with Luzarches. Denis Baudouin makes it come to the Town hall from Paris, where it is charged to write the speeches of Jacques Chirac, station which Alain Juppe occupied before it. Mission leader near the managing director of the information and the communication of the Town of Paris (1982-1986), it joined the cabinet of Jacques Chirac when it is named Prime Minister in 1986 to continue to write his speeches.

In 1988, Christine Albanel finds the town hall of Paris, where it is named assistant editor of the cabinet of the mayor. She forms also part of the team which around Maurice Ulrich prepares the presidential campaign of 1995. Jacques Chirac having been elected President of the Republic, it follows it to the Elysium. It is it which writes the famous speech of Vèl' d' Hiv of July 1995 by which Jacques Chirac recognizes the responsibility for France in the deportation of the Jews and the homage to François Mitterrand marked on January 8th, 1996. It also becomes to advise for education and the culture and is named to advise State in 2000.

Named president of the public corporation of the museum and the national field of Versailles in July 2003, it succeeds Hubert Astier. The nomination of a personality administrator and not of a scientific personality to the head of such an establishment however moved the world by the conservatives and the historians of Article More especially as his action then was very disputed, the specialists in the period showing it to sacrifice the conservation and the scientific research to the profit of the frequentation increasingly larger of the site and to marketing. She indeed largely called upon the private sector for the restoration and the valorization of the castle.

Political career

She is elected regional adviser RPR UDF, MPF, DVD then UMP of Ile-de-France of 1986 with 1992 and of 1998 with 2004.

May 18th, 2007, it is named Minister for the Culture and Transport and Government spokesman, however the station of Spokesperson was in June 2007 entrusted to Laurent Wauquiez. She is also member of the Scientific advice and evaluation of the Fondation for the political innovation.

A few weeks after its nomination, she asks Jean-Pierre Bady, president of the Commission of verification of the deposits of works of art, not to publish his report 2007 concerning the management of the furniture of the State in 2006. This report/ratio gives a report on 17.000 disappearances of objects of the historical heritage, of which some had been entrusted to ministries, embassies or elected officials. She would have committed herself publishing this report in 2008.

In October 2007, she is opposed to the return in New Zealand heads of Maoris warriors currently held by French museums. While the mayor of Rouen decides to restore with the Zealand News a head of Maori tattooed preserved by museum of the city, in answer to the request formulated since 1992 by the national museum néozélandais Te Dad Tongarewa , for the return of all the remainders of Maoris skins dispersed all over the world, the minister seeks to make move back the municipality, and refuses the generalization of this act to the national museums, of which the Musée of the Quay Branly. Indeed, according to it, these heads are works of art, and for this reason inalienable, while the town hall of Rouen, these pieces of human body must be returned in the name of the law on the bioethics.

Works

Christine Albanel is also the author of works of fiction and is Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Theater

the House Ambuse , ED. J. - C. Slats, 1981. Play
Barrio Chino , ED. Actes Sud, 1987. Play created with the Theater of Small Odéon, with Bernadette Lafont.
the Field of Marie-Antoinette , ED. Artistic French company of promotion, Paris, 2006 (coll)

Romance

a foolish mother , ED. Flammarion, 1994

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