Françoise Nyssen
| Françoise Nyssen | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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Assumed office 17 May 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Édouard Philippe |
| Preceded by | Audrey Azoulay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 June 1951 Etterbeek, Belgium |
| Nationality |
Belgian French |
| Parents |
Hubert Nyssen Christine Le Bœuf |
| Alma mater | Université libre de Bruxelles |
Françoise Nyssen (born June 9, 1951 in Etterbeek) is a French publisher, director of Actes Sud. On 17 May 2017, she was appointed as French minister of Culture. She is the successor of Audrey Azoulay.
Françoise Nyssen grew up and attended university in Belgium. She has a maîtrise (Master's degree) from the Institut supérieur d’urbanisme et de rénovation urbaine in Brussels and worked first as an urban planner in Paris.
In 1987, she became an associate and presiding director of Actes Sud publisher, founded by her father Hubert Nyssen, and located in Arles. Françoise Nyssen and her husband founded in 2014 the school Domaine du possible, using new paedagogical methods. The school settled in a farm a few kilometers away from Arles center, where a hundred pupils, aged from 3 to 16, are enrolled on September 2016.
On 17 May 2017, she was appointed as French minister of Culture.
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