Thierry de Beaucé

Thierry Martin de Beaucé (14 February 1943 – 25 November 2022) was a French high official, a student of the École nationale d'administration (1967–1968), writer and politician.

De Beaucé sat in several ministerial cabinets and then became a cultural advisor in Japan before joining the French Embassy in Rabat. He was appointed Director of International Relations at Elf Aquitaine, where he remained from 1981 to 1986. He was then Director General of Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations at the Quai d'Orsay before becoming Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for international cultural relations (1988–91) in the second cabinet of Michel Rocard.

De Beaucé prepared and passed in 1990 the law creating the Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger.

After the resignation of Michel Rocard, he was appointed chargé de mission at the Élysée, still under the presidency of François Mitterrand, then ambassador of France to Indonesia. He ended his professional career as director of international relations of the company Vivendi, then directed by Jean-Marie Messier.

In 1985, he won the Prix Contrepoint with his novel La chute de Tanger published the previous year.

Works 1975: Les raisons dangereuses 1978: Un homme ordinaire 1979: L'île absolue. Essai sur le Japon, 1981: Le désir de guerre, Hachette 1984: La chute de Tanger, Éditions Gallimard , Prix Contrepoint (1985) 1988: Nouveau discours sur l'universalité de la langue française, Gallimard, 1989: Le Livre d'Esther, Grasset 1998: L'Archipel des épices, Plon 1991: La république de France, Grasset & Fasquelle 1995: La Nonchalance de Dieu, , 2006: L'absent de Marrakech, Éditions du Rocher, 2006