Jack Lang in “Le Monde”, the splendors and miseries of a profession spanning greater than sixty years | EUROtoday

LThe curtain has fallen. Jack Lang resigned on Saturday February 7 from the presidency of the Arab World Institute, following every week of intense controversy regarding his monetary and pleasant ties with the American intercourse prison Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019.

Cornered by the opening, the day earlier than, of an investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office for “laundering of aggravated tax fraud”, the previous Minister of Culture, 86, may not rely on the help of the Elysée and the Quai d’Orsay, his supervisory authorities. So he left, carried away by the tsunami of ” Epstein Files »these millions of emails from the ex-businessman published by the American administration, in which Jack Lang figured prominently.

The splendors and decadences of the career of this immortal of power have occupied the columns of the World. Since an anonymous pen recorded, on July 11, 1962, the name of this executive of the United Socialist Party, then aged 22, among a list of 47 rebels critical of their leadership. A year later, on May 2, 1963, Claude Sarraute reported the driving role of this “young assistant at the law faculty” of Nancy in the organization of the “first international university theater festival” in the Lorraine city.

“His own lyricism”

The name of Jack Lang alone embodies the cultural policy of François Mitterrand’s two seven-year term (1981-1995), from the single book prize to the creation of the Fête de la Musique. It is synonymous with “gateway” with civil society, as noted by Daniel Schneidermann, June 29, 1987. “The only one, perhaps, launched between a political universe strapped into its mouse-gray suits, stuck in its three-point reasoning, squeezed into its glittering limousines, and the galaxy of “connected” people of all stripes, the people of clips, fun, rap and off-off, who can be recognized by the rheumy eye and the uncertain shave, from Aubervilliers to the Buttes-Chaumont studios. »

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