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Frédéric Mitterrand in 2008

Frédéric Mitterrand (born 21 August 1947) is the French Minister of Culture and Communication. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, a screenwriter, a television presenter, a writer, producer and director.

Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the President of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915-2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule".

Biography

In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed as the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

A year later, on 23 June 2009, Mitterrand was appointed to the French government as the Minister of Culture and Communications, a position that had previously been held by André Malraux and Jack Lang, among many other people.

Mitterrand, who is is openly bisexual, writes a monthly column for Têtu.

Family life

He has three sons: Mathieu, Said and Jihed.

Pedophilia controversy

In 2005, he wrote a book where he admitted paying for sex with "young boys" in Thailand. After he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders of Roman Polanski, who was convicted of having sex with a minor in the United States and who was arrested in 2009, Mitterrand came under harsh criticism from both the right-wing and the left-wing in French politics, and both the right-wing Front National and the Socialist Party called for his resignation. Socialist party spokesman Benoît Hamon stated: “As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a film maker and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking.”

References

  1. LEXPRESS.fr (2008-06-04). 'Frédéric Mitterrand nommé à la Villa Médicis', in L'Express, 4 June 2008. Retrieved from http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/frederic-mitterrand-nomme-a-la-villa-medicis_507570.html?xtor=RSS-96.
  2. LE MONDE.FR (2009-06-23). 'Frédéric Mitterrand confirme sa venue à la culture', in Le Monde, 23 June 2009. Retrieved from http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2009/06/23/frederic-mitterrand-prochain-ministre-de-la-culture_1210246_823448.html#ens_id=1210247.
  3. Frédéric Mitterrand, 'Lettre Romaine', in Têtu, July-August 2009, issue 146, p. 20
  4. Frédéric Mitterrand admitted to paying for sex with 'young boys’ in Thailand, The Daily Telegraph, 07 Oct 2009
  5. Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterand fights to save job in rent boy row, The Times, 07 Oct 2009

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