From the Palace of Versailles to the Elysée Palace, the unbeatable Catherine Pgard | EUROtoday

In cultural circles, the forecast has been circulating for a number of weeks: Catherine Pgard, Emmanuel Macron’s tradition advisor on the Elysée since September, might succeed Rachida Dati on the Ministry of Culture, within the occasion that the latter chooses to dedicate herself totally to her Parisian marketing campaign in view of the municipal elections of March 15 and 22. For now, the candidate for Paris City Hall, whose residence and places of work have been searched in December 2025 as a part of a judicial investigation for corruption and affect peddling in reference to the train of her mandate as a European parliamentarian, doesn’t appear in a rush to pack her packing containers. To Sud Radio who requested her, on November 5, if the mixture of minister and candidate was tenable, Rachida Dati responded with out blinking: “Everything is compatible. »

Asked at the end of December about the rumors that propelled her to Rue de Valois, Catherine Pgard stiffened. “That’s not the point,” she replies, face closed and lips pursed, in her small spartan workplace housed on the primary ground of the west wing of the Elysée. At 71, the previous political journalist who labored in Nicolas Sarkozy’s workplace between 2007 and 2011, earlier than reigning for twelve and a half years over the Palace of Versailles, is aware of the volatility of rumors within the corridors. While she was already being thought of for the ministry of tradition in 2022, Emmanuel Macron in the end most popular her tradition advisor on the Elysée on the time, Rima Abdul Malak.

She can also be conscious that different profiles, extra political or extra profitable, are on the radar. Starting with the affable Philippe Bélaval, forty years spent within the service of tradition on the Paris Opera, the National Library of France, the Archives of France or the Center of National Monuments. The solely setback on his document: in 2016, he did not take the helm of the Palace of Versailles, the place Catherine returned for a second time period. Culture advisor to Emmanuel Macron from 2023 to June 2025, the enarque left the Elysée for private causes within the spring, whereas remaining accountable for the thorny challenge of the mortgage of the Bayeux tapestry to Great Britain.

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