This is one of the surprises of the Castex government. Announced at the end of the day Monday, July 6, 2020, this new government, under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron, surprised more than one. First, by the appointment of the most famous lawyer in France, Eric Dupond-Moretti, tenor of the bar and figure of French media life. Then, that of Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape (and who defends his right to the presumption of innocence), at the Ministry of the Interior. Finally, by that of a former Chiraquienne and Sarkozyste Minister for Culture, Roselyne Bachelot. A politician who has become a key figure in the French audiovisual landscape and who swore not wanting to return to her first love. However, politics, Roselyne Bachelot did, on TV sets. She skimmed them during the coronavirus crisis, where she recovered, and even revealed that she had written a list of people she believed had made mistakes during the pandemic. Indeed, in 2009, the politician finds herself at the heart of a controversy about the government ordering of a surplus of vaccines against influenza A. An action which, during the coronavirus pandemic, had been retrospectively considered adequate in view of the shortage of masks faced by France. Roselyne Bachelot takes her revenge, almost a decade later.
At the Louvre, a one-woman-show signed Bachelot
It’s at the Louvre that Roselyne Bachelot chose to make her very first ministerial visit, as reported The Parisian in an article published Wednesday May 8, entitled “To Culture, the Bachelot Renaissance.” The 73-year-old politician takes this opportunity to make things clear: “I always said that I no longer wanted to be a minister. But I added in codicil: "Unless someone offers me Culture." The one who defines herself as the “Minister of Artists” has lost nothing of her outspokenness, much appreciated during her television appearances … or on the radio, where she officiated in The Big Heads. So the visit to the Louvre turned into a one-woman-show for Roselyne Bachelot. “Roselyne Bachelot does Bachelot”, relate our colleagues. With her, you never escape from daring, even naughty and frivolous jokes. "‘ I could wear that, do you think it would suit me? "She asked the President and director of the Louvre, upon seeing the coronation of the coronation of Louis XV. ‘I forbid you to photograph me!’ She laughs in front of… the Raft of the Medusa, by Géricault. Seeing the immense Death of Sardanapale, from Delacroix, representing a naked woman about to be slaughtered, she exclaims: "We should show it to the minister responsible for equality between women and men." Then, bypassing a bronze of Mercury and ostensibly looking at her buttocks: ‘It is better on that side ! ’” An attitude that did not prevent her from having tears in her eyes when she arrived on Monday in her new office.
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