Great state clerk, he started his career with General de Gaulle before chairing several institutions. Photographer at her hours, poet, he died on January 9, at the age of 90.
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“Great man of the public service”, “senior official at the service of his country’s cultural life”, “Grand Servant” or “Grand Clerk of the State” are the terms that come back most often in the tributes that praised Jean Maheu’s death on January 9 in Paris at the age of 90.
The former enarque and student of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, born in Paris on January 24, 1931, had been appointed to the Court of Auditors as soon as he left the National School of Administration, in 1958 , without exercising in a sustainable way. He will work first, from 1962 to 1967, as a Project Manager at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, with General de Gaulle.
From 1967 to 1974, he is Director of Youth and Socio-Educational Activities at the State Secretariat with the Prime Minister for Youth, Sports and Recreation. From 1974 to 1979, Jean Maheu is Director of Music, Lyrical Art and Dance at the Ministry of Culture. Appointed to this function by André Malraux, he discusses him during a “head-to-head”. As will entrust Jean Maheu to The dispatch of August 7, 2015 : “It is of course André Malraux who spoke, and I listened to him. Malraux, C ‘ was the story. “
A discreet man, almost anonymous
In 1983, the left arrival in power for two years proposes the Presidency of the National Center for Art and Culture Georges-Pompidou, a function that it will occupy for six years along two mandates. Jean Maheu considered this period of his professional life like the one who had given him the most satisfaction, in particular on the occasion of the exhibition, from March to June 1988, works by Marc Chagall received in dation.
In 1989, he was appointed President and CEO of Radio France, where his duties will be extended until 1995, during two mandates as well. In a Blog , Jean-Pierre Rousseau, Current Director of the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival, whom Jean Maheu had appointed Director of France Music in 1993, recalls the protocol fantasies of ‘A sometimes fantasy president.
m. Rousseau, attached to the phone Monday, January 10, Croque The portrait of the former president of Radio France in a keyword: “equilibrist”, especially with the political powers, that they should be right or left: “It was The archetype of the senior official with a brilliant career that did not disturb anyone. “
Jean Maheu leaves the memory of a discreet man, almost anonymous, as the Journalist Fabienne sinks reports, of which he was “the first CEO”, on his Twitter account :” When he went to visit a local, he went there at most a Collaborator. The legend (or not) tells that one day it happens alone at the reception of a southwestern radio. “- Hello, I am Jean Maheu. – And you won what game? “”
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