Christine Albanel
Christine Marie Albanel ( born June 25, 1955 in Toulouse, Haute- Garonne ) is a French writer and politician who is a member of the UMP. From May 2007 to June 2009, it was Minister of Culture and Communications under Prime Minister François Fillon and government spokeswoman.
Life
Christine Albanels into politics began in 1979 with her work as a press officer for the then President, Valéry Giscard d' Estaing. It remained so until the end of the term of office of Giscard d'Estaing in 1981. Thereafter she taught nearly a year at a Lycée in Luzarches (Val -d'Oise ), then was but the teaching on. By the end of the term of office of Giscard d'Estaing had already established close ties with then mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, at whose side also runs their entire future career.
She worked from 1982 to 1986 in the Paris city hall as Advisor to the Director General of Information and Communications. Albanel, which is also a writer of plays made a name in this period ( La Maison Ambuse, 1981; Les Palhasses, 1983; Hôtel Sawat et de la plage, 1984), was ghostwriter ( " plume" ) by Jacques Chirac and wrote during his further career numerous speeches for him. When Chirac became prime minister in 1986 (1st cohabitation with François Mitterrand from 1986 to 1988 ), he called Christine Albanel in his cabinet. In 1988, two years later, Albanel went as Deputy Cabinet Director of the Mayor Jacques Chirac ( 1977-1995 ) back to the Paris City Hall. After the election of Chirac in 1995 was elected president, he appointed Albanel to his advisor for education and culture, then, in 2000, the State Councillor.
In July 2003 she was appointed as the successor Hubert Astier as president of the museum and the state farms of the Palace of Versailles. The cast of this item with a person who comes from the Administration and no designated conservator or scientist was sparked when curators and art historians from some severe criticism. In addition, it could be assumed that Albanel got this item just because of their long years of close collaboration with Jacques Chirac. As a result, they threw Albanel ago, Versailles remodel in an amusement park, among other things, because there they approved the shooting of the film " Marie Antoinette " by Sofia Coppola. The 51 -year-old Nouvel Observateur, according to the an old friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
On May 18, 2007, she was appointed Minister of Culture and Communications and Government Spokesperson in the government François Fillon. She left the government in a cabinet reshuffle on 23 June 2009. The Ministry of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres she broke off.
She went in 2010 to the private sector to Orange and is there since June 2012 Head of the " events, cultural and institutional partnerships and solidarity. "
Private
Christine Albanel is the daughter of the physician Jean -Claude Albanel and Lucile Bez ( Albanel ). She was married to Philippe Guilhot de Lagarde, of which she is now divorced. She has a child - Antoine Valroff.
Works
Plays
- La Maison Ambuse, Paris ( J.-C. Lattès ) 1981
- Les Palhasses, 1983
- Hôtel Sawat et de la plage, 1984
Novel
- Une mère insensée, Paris ( Flammarion ) 1994