Catherine Tasca

French politician
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Catherine Tasca
French Minister of Culture
In office
2000–2002
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterLionel Jospin
Preceded byCatherine Trautmann
Succeeded byJean-Jacques Aillagon
Senator for Yvelines
In office
26 September 2004 – 1 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1941-12-13) 13 December 1941 (age 82)
Lyon, France
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materSciences Po, ÉNA

Catherine Tasca (born 13 December 1941 in Lyon) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the Senate of France, representing the Yvelines department from 2004 to 2017, including as the Senate's vice-president. From 2000 to 2002 she was Minister of Culture in France.

Early life and education

Tasca is the daughter of Angelo Tasca, a former founding member of the Communist Party of Italy from Piedmont. After expulsion from the Communist Party, Angelo went into exile in France. There he joined the French Section of the Workers' International in 1934 and later supported the Vichy regime in the 1940s.

Political career

During her time as Minister of Culture, Tasca caused a diplomatic incident when she announced that she would boycott the opening of the Paris Book Fair in 2002, which celebrated Italy, if it were attended by Italy's right-wing prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.[1]

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Tasca endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[2]

References

  1. ^ Alan Riding (30 January 2002), French Government and the Louvre in a War of Words New York Times.
  2. ^ Primaire PS: 39 sénateurs PS apportent leur soutien à Aubry Le Point, 13 October 2011.

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