In the political and media sphere, Roselyne Bachelot has found her place. Today Minister of Culture – a difficult role in a period of pandemic and which has earned her many criticisms over the months – the 74-year-old Neversoise can boast of having had a beautiful and long career … but she does not does not intend to retire, however Roselyne Bachelot, recently hospitalized after contracting Covid-19, has started her professional life in the medical field. In 1988, she graduated from the promotion of her studies in pharmacy. A profession chosen by her parents, far from that of singer she dreamed of, as she had confided in a video interview with Current wife on the occasion of his participation in the show Shopping queens in February 2020.
In 1988, Roselyne Bachelot took over the seat of her father, Jean Narquin, in the National Assembly. She had started her political career six years earlier by becoming general councilor of Maine-et-Loire, before taking up the post of regional councilor for Pays de la Loire in 1986. A role she held for nearly two decades .
Minister, TV columnist, author … the busy life of Roselyne Bachelot
But Roselyne Bachelot is best known for having been minister on numerous occasions. From 2002 to 2004, under the presidency of Jacques Chirac – for whom she had been the spokesperson for the electoral campaign – she was first appointed to the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development. A position that she will seek during the two governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. In 2004, she was then elected Member of the European Parliament, until she left office three years later. In 2007, the doctoral student in pharmacy then took charge of the Ministry of Health and Sports. It will be renewed in the two governments of François Fillon, then Prime Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy. After a third reshuffle, Roselyne Bachelot is appointed Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion. She finally left the government in 2012.
For eight years, the one who had appeared in pink fangs at the Elysee Palace becomes a real television personality. Show columnist The Big 8 on the chain D8, member of Big heads by Laurent Ruquier on RTL, she has also animated several political programs on LCI or RMC. She is also the author of ten books, published between 1999 and 2021. The most recent, My life in Pink, is also an autobiography. On the cultural side, Roselyne Bachelot learns to play the piano from the age of three and also practices singing from an early age. She discovered a real passion for opera when a friend took her there for the first time to the Verona Festival in 1970. Finally, on July 6, 2020, to everyone’s surprise, Pierre Bachelot’s mother made her big comeback. in politics, succeeding Franck Riester as Minister of Culture.
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