Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP 10:46 p.m., March 21, 2024
Frédéric Mitterrand died this Thursday at the age of 76 from “aggressive cancer”. Political figures pay tribute to his memory and to what he did on television, in the cinema but also during his time at the Ministry of Culture, between 2009 and 2012, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the former Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, who died on Thursday, saluting a man who "lived a thousand existences, all woven with a common thread: culture for everyone".
“He leaves behind him a big void”
"His legendary 'Good evening!' we will miss them,” the head of state wrote on For his part, Gabriel Attal saluted the memory of a “man in love with everything that directly or indirectly touched on culture”. “A man who had an insatiable thirst for learning and a constant project to do,” he added, believing that France was losing “a total man of culture.”
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“Minister, man of letters, culture and the media, he leaves behind a great void after a life made of political passion and love of cinema,” said the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun. -Pivet. His counterpart in the Senate, Gérard Larcher, paid tribute to the “former minister with multiple cultural hats and unique voice of television”.
“He was a great Minister of Culture, whose passion marked our country. His contribution to art and politics transcends divisions,” declared the head of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti. Nephew of a socialist, Frédéric Mitterrand had for a time been in the Movement of Left Radicals (MRG), a center-left party, before supporting Jacques Chirac in 1995, during the presidential election.