Family
Nicolas Revel, born Ricard, is the son of Académie Française, academician Jean-François Revel, born Ricard (1924–2006), and journalist Claude Sarraute (born 1927). His maternal grandmother, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), was a Jews, Jewish woman of Russia, Russian background who came to France as a child. He has on his mother's side two half-brothers, Laurent and Martin and a half-sister, Véronique; and on his father's side he has a half-sister and a half-brother, Ève and Matthieu Ricard, who is a Buddhist monk and a writer. His aunts are :fr:Anne_Sarraute, Anne Sarraute and photographer Dominique Sarraute. He has three sons named Simon, David et Benjamin.Career
A graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Public Service section, class of 1988) and former student of the École nationale d'administration (class of Léon-Gambetta, 1991–1993), Nicolas Revel joined the Court of Audit (France), Court of Auditors as legal adviser. In 2000, he was appointed technical advisor by the Minister of Agriculture (France), Minister of Agriculture Jean Glavany. After Bertrand Delanoë's victory in the 2001 French municipal elections, 2001 municipal elections, the new mayor of Paris chose him as deputy chief of staff (in 2003). He appointed him Chief of Staff in 2008.References
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