Thierry Martin de Beaucé (14 February 1943 – 25 November 2022)
Thierry de Beaucé
was a French high official, a student of the École nationale d'administration
The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the 1958 Constitution Michel Deb ...
(1967–1968), writer and politician.
De Beaucé sat in several ministerial cabinets and then became a cultural advisor in Japan before joining the French Embassy in Rabat. He was appointed Director of International Relations at Elf Aquitaine
Elf Aquitaine is a French brand of oils and other motor products (such as brake fluids) for automobiles and trucks. Elf is a former petroleum company which merged with TotalFina to form "TotalFinaElf". The new company changed its name to Total ...
, where he remained from 1981 to 1986. He was then Director General of Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations at the Quai d'Orsay
The Quai d'Orsay ( , ) is a quay in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is part of the left bank of the Seine opposite the Place de la Concorde. The Quai becomes the Quai Anatole-France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai Branly west of t ...
before becoming Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for international cultural relations (1988–91) in the second cabinet of Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard (; 23 August 1930 – 2 July 2016) was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the ''Revenu minimum d'ins ...
.
De Beaucé prepared and passed in 1990 the law creating the Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger.
After the resignation of Michel Rocard, he was appointed chargé de mission at the Élysée, still under the presidency of François Mitterrand, then ambassador of France to Indonesia. He ended his professional career as director of international relations of the company Vivendi
Vivendi SE is a French mass media holding company headquartered in Paris. Widely known as the owner of Gameloft, Groupe Canal+, Havas, Editis, Prisma Media, Vivendi Village and Dailymotion, the company has activities in television, film, video ...
, then directed by Jean-Marie Messier.
In 1985, he won the Prix Contrepoint with his novel ''La chute de Tanger'' published the previous year.
Works
*1975: ''Les raisons dangereuses''
*1978: ''Un homme ordinaire''
*1979: ''L'île absolue. Essai sur le Japon'',
*1981: ''Le désir de guerre'', Hachette
*1984: ''La chute de Tanger'', Éditions Gallimard , Prix Contrepoint (1985)
*1988: ''Nouveau discours sur l'universalité de la langue française'', Gallimard,
*1989: ''Le Livre d'Esther'', Éditions Grasset, Grasset
*1998: ''L'Archipel des épices'', Plon (publisher), Plon
*1991: ''La république de France'', Grasset & Fasquelle
*1995: ''La Nonchalance de Dieu'', ,
*2006: ''L'absent de Marrakech'', Éditions du Rocher, 2006
References
External links
Thierry de Beaucé
on Les Après-midi de Saint-Loup
Thierry de Beaucé. L'Ile absolue. Essai sur le Japon (compte rendu)
on Persée
on CAIRN
on Politiquemania
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1943 births
2022 deaths
20th-century French writers
20th-century French male writers
École nationale d'administration alumni
Ambassadors of France to Indonesia
Civil servants from Lyon
Writers from Lyon
Politicians from Lyon