– The two lives of a dandy of French culture
Filmmaker, producer, journalist, writer, former Minister of Culture and member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Frédéric Mitterrand has died at the age of 76. He had been battling cancer for more than a year, an illness which he had spoken about publicly.
Jean-Baptiste Garat – Le Figaro (LENA)
Published: 03/22/2024, 06:57
Frédéric Mitterrand, then Minister of Culture in France, is interviewed during his visit to the Fondation Beyeler, near Basel, in February 2010.
KEYSTONE
It’s sometimes difficult to make a name for yourself when you have your parents’ name. For Frédéric Mitterrand, sharing the surname of his uncle François Mitterrand is more about the incident with which he knew how to play – he had to play – throughout his career. “It’s a multiplier of advantages and a multiplier of problems,” he testified in 1992 before Thierry Ardisson. There are people who become more likable, people who become less likable. But if people become more likable or less likable because of that, they are wrong. There’s no point in that.”