Frédéric Mitterrand was Minister of Culture under Nicolas Sarkozy from 2009 to 2012. The nephew of the former president of the Republic was a politician who was difficult to classify.
He announced in April 2023 that he was "sick", without saying more. He entered the government under a right-wing president. He quickly followed up with controversies, for example defending the Roman Polanski, prosecuted for rape. Marine Le Pen will also accuse him of pedophilia by exhuming extracts from one of his books.