Rachida Dati is the new French Minister of Culture. She is a former magistrate who became mayor of the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris after growing up in a public housing project.
She has launched a national consultation to open up the cultural offer to the middle class. Dati's appointment was surprising and, a hundred days later, she wants to continue to amaze. The Parisian councilor first went where he was least expected by launching the “spring of rurality's” spring of culture, he writes. "She doesn't need to talk about it, she embodies it," said a minister at the beginning of February, adding that her "combativeness will make the difference." "All French people (...) can be cultural actors', she declared at the end of January, adding: "Everyone knows that I like to fight.'