the promotion of January 2025 in culture

With a slight delay, undoubtedly due to government instability, the new promotion of the Legion of Honor was published in the Official Journal. This year, the Ministry of Culture appointed and promoted 27 personalities from the world of culture, almost as many as during the summer appointments on July 14.

Rima Abdul Malak, May 20, 2022.

© Ministry of Culture / Thibaut Chapotot

Among these 27 distinctions, we note in particular the appointment to the rank of knight of the former Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, that of Christopher Miles, the general director of creation at the Ministry of Culture since 2021, and of Léopold Meyer, the former president of the Friends of the Center Pompidou.

Several artists were also named, including the photographers Mathilde de l’Ecotais and Jacqueline Salmon, as well as the Franco-Argentinian sculptor Pablo Reinoso, who took over the steps of the Élysée by creating the access ramps in 2024.

Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre museum, has been promoted to the rank of officer. We also note the promotion to the ranks of commander of Jean-Paul Claverie, advisor to Bernard Arnault, president of the LVMH group, as well as Maryvonne Pinault, wife of the founder of the rival group Kering and patron of the art world, already promoted to the rank of commander. to officiate in 2015.

This year were promoted and appointed by the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honor: the composer and conductor Laurent Petitgirard, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts, to the rank of commander, as well as the curator of heritage Sophie Makariou, at the rank of knight. She was notably president of the Guimet Museum and is now scientific director of the French Agency for the Development of AlUla (AFALULA) in Saudi Arabia.

Philippe Jost © Romaric Toussaint/Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris

Philippe Jost.

© Romaric Toussaint / Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris

As part of the special promotion in honor of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, Philippe Jost, the president of the public establishment Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris, was promoted to the rank of commander by the Ministry of Culture .

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