Christine Albanel

Christine Albanel
File:Christine Albanel 2008.jpg Christine Albanel (2008)
French Minister of Culture
In office 18 May 2007 – 23 June 2009
President	Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres
Succeeded by	Frédéric Mitterrand
Personal details
Born	(1955-06-25) 25 June 1955 Toulouse, France
Nationality	French
Political party	UMP

Christine Albanel (born 25 June 1955) is a French politician and civil servant. From May 2007 to June 2009 she was France's Minister for Culture and Communication in François Fillon's government.

Albanel is agrégé in classical Letters. In 1982, she joined the administration of the city of Paris, and followed Jacques Chirac – working in his cabinet – when he became Prime Minister in 1986 and French President in 1995.

In 2000, she became Conseiller d'État.

She became president of the museum and domain administration of the Palace of Versailles in 2003.

In 2007, she was appointed Minister of Culture in François Fillon's government. While in this position, she proposed a new law (the HADOPI law) with the objective to reduce music and video piracy over the Internet, along the same 'graduated penalty' lines of thinking that previous ineffective 'DADVSI' law. This move generated huge debate as several Presumption of innocence key liberty and law principles were sacrificed for the sake of efficiency, while most experts in Internet technology said the attempt was anyway doomed as grossly underestimating the complexity of any reliable control system.

As of 10 June 2009, the HADOPI law was struck down by the Constitutional Council of France. She is currently Executive Vice-President of multi-national telecommunications corporation Orange.

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Preceded by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres	Minister of Culture 2007–2009	Succeeded by Frédéric Mitterrand