Catherine Pégard, French minister for culture

It usually takes at least three months for the minister for culture to fall out with La Tribune de l’Art. This time, it has already happened, so time is saved.

Let us be fair, however. If Catherine Pégard has no real qualification to become minister for culture, no more than she had to be president of the public institution of the Château de Versailles, let us recognise two things.
First: she is legitimate, as a former journalist, to become minister for communication, which constitutes, even if no longer included in the title, half of the field covered by this ministry.
Second: even though we have strongly criticised her action at the head of Versailles, we must recognise an important quality. She…