Maxime Tandonnet Explained

Maxime Tandonnet
Birth Date:1958 10, df=y
Birth Place:, France (today Bordeaux, France)
Nationality:French
Occupation:Civil servant
Writer
Education:Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux
École nationale d'administration
Office:Subprefect of the Arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Term Start:1994
Term End:1996
Predecessor:Jean-François Delage
Successor:Frédéric Benet-chambellan
Office2:Private secretary of the
Term Start2:1993
Term End2:1994
Predecessor2:Jérôme Gutton
Successor2:Francis Vuibert
Office3:Private secretary of the Prefect of Indre-et-Loire
Term Start3:1992
Term End3:1993
Successor3:Patrick Buttin

Maxime Tandonnet (7 October 1958 – 21 September 2024) was a French civil servant and writer.[1]

Life and career

Born in on 7 October 1958, Tandonnet graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in 1979 and from the École nationale d'administration in 1992.[2] After his military service in the French Navy, he was named as a secretary of foreign affairs at the Embassy of France in Sudan for two years. He then joined the directorate for French citizens abroad in North Africa and the Middle East.[3] In 1992, the Minister of the Interior named him private secretary to Prefect of Indre-et-Loire and subsequently to Claude Érignac. In 2008, he was named a member of the .[4]

In 2007, Tandonnet became an advisor on immigration at the Élysée Palace, a post he held until 2011.[5] He then resumed his duties as an inspector-general for the Minister of the Interior.[6] The press lauded him as President Nicolas Sarkozy's main advisor on immigration,[7] though he faced criticism for the proximity of his beliefs to those of the National Front.[8] In addition to his administrative career, he regularly contributed to Le Figaro,[9] Atlantico,[10] Le Journal du Dimanche,[11] and the Revue Politique et Parlementaire.[12] He also became a guest instructor on immigration policy at Paris-East Créteil University in 2011.[13]

Tandonnet died on 21 September 2024, at the age of 65.[14]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Feertchak . Alexis . 23 September 2024 . Le haut fonctionnaire et historien Maxime Tandonnet est mort . 23 September 2024 . . French . [see text on beginning of video] Maxime Tandonnet, haut fonctionnaire et historien, est décédé à l’âge de 65 ans samedi 21 septembre [in English: “Maxime Tandonnet, a senior civil servant and an historian, died at 65 on Saturday, September the 21st”].
  2. News: 8 June 2007. Maxime Tandonnet. French. Les Echos. 23 September 2024.
  3. News: 12 April 2011. Maxime Tandonnet, le conseiller de Sarkozy qui doit fermer son blog. French. Yahoo! News. 23 September 2024.
  4. Web site: Maxime Tandonnet. Journal officiel de la République française. French.
  5. News: 25 August 2011. Tandonnet, le co-rédacteur du discours de Grenoble, quitte l'Elysée. French. Slate. 23 September 2024.
  6. News: 21 January 2013. On a retrouvé Maxime Tandonnet. French. La Lettre. 23 September 2024.
  7. News: 24 August 2011. Le conseiller immigration de la présidence quitte l'Elysée. French. Le Monde. 23 September 2024.
  8. News: Cori. Nicolas. 28 September 2010. Maxime Tandonnet, la plume acérée du discours de Grenoble. French. Libération. 23 September 2024.
  9. Web site: Maxime Tandonnet. Le Figaro. French.
  10. Web site: Maxime Tandonnet. Atlantico. French.
  11. News: Tandonnet. Maxime. 9 July 2024. Maxime Tandonnet : «Et maintenant, que va devenir la France ?». French. Le Journal du Dimanche. 23 September 2024.
  12. Web site: Maxime Tandonnet. Revue Politique et Parlementaire. French.
  13. Web site: Droit des étrangers et de l'accès à la nationalité. Paris-East Créteil University. French.
  14. News: 23 September 2024. Le Journal du Dimanche pleure Maxime Tandonnet, plume libre et incisive. French. Le Journal du Dimanche. 23 September 2024.
  15. Web site: Prix Lucien Dupont. Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. French.
  16. News: Fouchet. Antoine. 9 November 2010. Un 11-Novembre aux couleurs de la Résistance. French. La Croix. 23 September 2024.
  17. News: Courtois. Gérard. 29 May 2013. Vingt-quatre destins présidentiels. French. Le Monde. 23 September 2024.
  18. News: Georges. Benoît. 22 March 2013. Histoire et histoires des présidents français. French. Les Echos. 23 September 2024.
  19. News: Houchard. Béatrice. 20 February 2017. Maxime Tandonnet, nostalgique des parias. French. L'Opinion. 23 September 2024.
  20. News: Courtois. Gérard. 20 March 2019. « André Tardieu, l’incompris » : portrait d’un modernisateur de la politique française. French. Le Monde. 23 September 2024.
  21. News: Bastière. Jean-Marc. 2 March 2022. Georges Bidault, de la Résistance à l’Algérie française, de Maxime Tandonnet: un héros shakespearien. French. Le Figaro. 23 September 2024.

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