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===Minister of Culture===
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The Minister of Culture is in the [[Cabinet of France|Government of France]], the [[French government ministers|cabinet member]] in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic) in France and abroad; and managing the national archives and regional "maisons de culture" (culture centres). The Ministry of Culture is located on the [[Palais Royal]] in Paris.

The modern post of Minister of Culture was created by [[Charles de Gaulle]] in 1959 and the first Minister was the writer [[André Malraux]]. Malraux was responsible for realizing the goals of the "droit à la culture" ("the right to culture") – an idea which had been incorporated in the [[French constitution]] and the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (1948) – by democratizing access to culture, while also achieving the [[Gaullism|Gaullist]] aim of elevating the "grandeur" ("greatness") of post-war France. To this end, he created numerous regional cultural centres throughout France and actively sponsored the arts. Malraux's artistic tastes included the modern arts and the avant-garde, but on the whole he remained conservative.

The Ministry of [[Jacques Toubon]] was notable for a number of laws (the "[[Toubon Law]]s") enacted for the preservation of the French language, both in advertisements (all ads must include a French translation of foreign words) and on the radio (40% of songs on French radio stations must be in French), ostensibly in reaction to the presence of English.