Thierry Martin de Beaucé (14 February 1943 – 25 November 2022)Thierry de Beaucé
was a French high official, a student of the

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(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

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, where he remained from 1981 to 1986. He was then Director General of Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations at the

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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

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, then ambassador of France to Indonesia. He ended his professional career as director of international relations of the company

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, then directed by

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. In 1985, he won the

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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 Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga ...

, Prix Contrepoint (1985) *1988: ''Nouveau discours sur l'universalité de la langue française'', Gallimard, *1989: ''Le Livre d'Esther'', Grasset *1998: ''L'Archipel des épices'', Plon *1991: ''La république de France'', Grasset & Fasquelle *1995: ''La Nonchalance de Dieu'', , *2006: ''L'absent de Marrakech'',

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, 2006

References

External links

Thierry de Beaucé
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Thierry de Beaucé. L'Ile absolue. Essai sur le Japon (compte rendu)
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