'The fall of the cumbersome Jack Lang is seen as providential for France's entire political spectrum, which remains paralyzed by his cultural legacy'
- Posted on February 17, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'The fall of the cumbersome Jack Lang is seen as providential for France's entire political spectrum, which remains paralyzed by his cultural legacy'
COLUMN. The former culture minister, whose name has appeared in the emails of American sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, comes from another era and failed to realize that the artist can no longer be separated from the individual, writes Le Monde columnist Michel Guerrin.
