France: Former Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand Dies · Global Voices

He died at the age of 76, Frederic Mitterrand, a former and television man, after a “months battle against an aggressive cancer, his family announced at the French Agency. A nephew of former President François Mitterrand, French Minister for Culture when Nicolas Sarkozy was head of state, Frederic Mitterrand became known from television, where since 1981 he featured the show “Etoiles et toilets”. Special personality, great filmmaker, writer, announced in April 2023 that he was “sick”, without mentioning more. Nicolas Sarkozy said goodbye with a message on the platform X “a man deeply cultured and sensitive, a special man, a personality so far from party life”. “Frederic Mitterrand’s death saddens me. A 60 – year – old friendship linked us with unaltering devotion. Throughout his life he served the arts with passion, wealth and love. Our common faith in François Mitterrand deeply united us,” responded Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture at the Mitterrand presidency, to the same social media.