Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot. - Francois Mori / AP / SIPA

Roselyne Bachelot does not go there by four paths. The Minister of Culture said on Monday that she would not "whine" to "claim money" as part of the economic recovery plan after the health crisis that hit the world of culture hard .

“My mandate is not to claim money, it is to build projects. My role is not to whine, "said the minister on LCI. “What matters to me is the recovery plan. It is not for the Minister of Culture that I am going to cry in Bercy to get a tenth of an additional point, "she said.

Roselyne Bachelot wants to defend “collective projects”

The minister says she defends "collective projects" of development for the world of culture, which she does not imagine conceiving "all alone at the head of her administration", but "with the big players in culture, the territorial officials , Presidents of regions ”.

She hopes that the emergency credits of a billion euros in favor of the intermittent of the spectacle will be "quickly" distributed to the artists who "need this money to extend their social rights", and calls for this to "overcome" certain "technocratic heavinesses".

The states general of the festivals, which she had announced when she took office, will also be organized "in the first weeks of September", specified Roselyne Bachelot, who will receive this Monday the president of the Avignon festival, Olivier Py.

"We will not lock me in a box"

At the end of the interview, the Minister also spoke on the broadcast of the Big Heads , in which she participated on several occasions. "We can love the jokes grivoises with the Big Heads  and to impose itself vis-a-vis a world" cultural ", demanding, which is a little snob compared to that sometimes? Asks Elizabeth Martichoux. “It's my strength. I do not deny anything that I have done, ”assumes Roselyne Bachelot, who considers the program presented by Laurent Ruquier as a“ magnificent popular program with a side of fun but also a cultural side ”. "We ask questions, I learned a lot of things," she says.

"I refuse to snobbery, my characteristic is to love everything!" Added the minister. I don't want to be locked in a box. They won't lock me in a box. " The message is clear.

🗣 @R_Bachelot, Minister of Culture (@MinistereCC):

"I do not deny anything that I have done. The @GrossesTetesRTL, it's a magnificent popular program [...] We won't lock me in a box ".

📺 @EliMartichoux #LaMatinaleLCI channel 2⃣6⃣. pic.twitter.com/KvNCqcU6Jy

- LCI (@LCI) July 13, 2020

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