Catherine Tasca
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Catherine Tasca

French politician

Catherine Tasca (French pronunciation: [katʁin taska]; born 13 December 1941 in Lyon) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the Senate of France, representing the Yvelines department from 2004 to 2017, including as the Senate's vice-president. From 2000 to 2002 she was Minister of Culture in France.2

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Born Dec 13, 1941.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • 1965 to 1967École nationale d'administration3
  • Date not recordedParis Institute of Political Studies3

Tasca is the daughter of Angelo Tasca, a former founding member of the Communist Party of Italy from Piedmont. After expulsion from the Communist Party, Angelo went into exile in France. There he joined the French Section of the Workers' International in 1934 and later supported the Vichy regime in the 1940s.

She is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (1963) and the École nationale d’administration (1967).

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Career

Occupation: politician.6

  • 1997 to 2000Member of the French National Assembly5
  • Date not recordedFounded France Télévisions4
  • Date not recordedSenator of the French Fifth Republic5

Personal life

  • BornDec 13, 1941, Lyon7
  • CitizenshipFrance8

Politics

During her time as Minister of Culture, Tasca caused a diplomatic incident when she announced that she would boycott the opening of the Paris Book Fair in 2002, which celebrated Italy, if it were attended by Italy's right-wing prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Tasca endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.

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Awards

  • 2025Officer of the Legion of Honour9
  • 2001Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)9
  • 1993Knight of the Legion of Honour9
  • 1990Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic9 10

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