This time will have been the right one. Tried three years ago - Emmanuel Macron had then tried in vain to impose it on Edouard Philippe - to occupy the hyper-strategic function of director of cabinet to the Prime Minister, Nicolas Revel has very officially just been appointed to this position with Jean Castex.
Nicolas Revel, 54 years old since the end of May, son of academician Jean-François Revel and journalist Claude Sarraute, is far from being unknown to the highest spheres of the state. A high-ranking civil servant, he occupied during his career some important functions which allowed him to become an essential, making him a personality regularly cited at each reshuffle or game of musical chairs to seek this or that function.
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This enarch of the Gambetta promotion (1991-1993), previously with Sciences Po, began his career at the Court of Auditors before being struck by the virus of politics, on the left, by becoming technical adviser to Jean Glavany
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