Two years, eight months and thirty days: this is the time spent by Agnès Buzyn at the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, now a candidate for mayor of Paris. Out of a total of twenty-seven incumbents under the Fifth Republic, this places it in tenth position.
● A century-old ministry
It was just a century ago, on January 20, 1920, that a ministry specifically dedicated to health issues appeared. Entrusted to the researcher and elected socialist of Cher Jules-Louis Breton, it was then called the Ministry of Hygiene, before taking the name of Ministry of Public Health in 1930.
It was on this date that construction began on the vast art deco ensemble, designed by the architect Guillaume Tronchet, at the corner of avenue de Ségur and avenue Duquesne, behind the École Militaire; a building completely renovated in the early 1970s and then in 2013-2014, where the Ministry of Health is still located. Over the decades, the appellation and the perimeter of competence of the
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