Minister of Culture (France) - Names of The Ministry of Culture

Names of The Ministry of Culture

Since the French constitution does not identify specific ministers (merely speaking of "the minister in charge of" this or that), each government may label each ministry as they wish, or even have a broader ministry in charge of several governmental sectors. Hence, the ministry has gone through a number of different names:

  • 1959 Ministère des Affaires culturelles
  • 1974 Ministère des Affaires culturelles et de l’Environnement
  • 1974 Secrétariat d’État à la Culture
  • 1976 Ministère de la Culture et de l’Environnement
  • 1978 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
  • 1981 Ministère de la Culture
  • 1986 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
  • 1988 Ministère de la Culture, de la Communication, des Grands Travaux et du Bicentenaire
  • 1991 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
  • 1992 Ministère de l’Éducation nationale et de la Culture
  • 1993 Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie
  • 1995 Ministère de la Culture
  • 1997 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication

Read more about this topic:  Minister Of Culture (France)

Famous quotes containing the words ministry of culture, names of, names, ministry and/or culture:

    “The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
    —Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)

    “Tonight there are only the winter stars.
    The sky is no longer a junk-shop,
    Full of javelins and old fire-balls,
    Triangles and the names of girls.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the eave-drops fall
    Heard only in the trances of the blast,
    Or if the secret ministry of frost
    Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
    Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
    —Robert Warshow (1917–1955)