In Paris, the other shoe drops
NewsThe Director General of the Châtelet theatre in Paris cleared his desk last night.
Thomas Lauriot dit Prévost was appointed together with Ruth Mackenzie in 2017. She was fired two years ago.
Now he’s gone.
The theatre is being run on an interim basis by its head of HR, Frédéric Ivernel.
Nobody comes out of this smelling of Chanel5.
It is always the same in French public institutions, with either constant strikes and raging battles between the employees and the administration or constant battles between members of the administration and their usually incompetent bureaucratic government political masters. You would think that France would have revised their system years ago, seeing that it fails miserably, wastes enormous sums of public money and remains quite amateurish compared to other European institutions, with not one single French institution able to favourably compete on an international level, neither in the efficiency of their management nor in their programming.
RUBBISH. What are you smoking?
Think of CNRS, IRCAM, France Musique, France Culture, EDF, SNCF, Airbus industries, Snecma, Total-Fina-Elf all giants in their own right and very often far far better than in any other country, with major contributions from bureaucratic masters.
The hospital and medical system used to be way superior to the UK.
French nuclear electricity is a world leader which is one of the great French success stories.
“not one single French institution able to favourably compete on an international level, neither in the efficiency of their management”
your opinion is a pile of anti-french crap.
Do you speak French?
Jealous?
The comment that you are so upset about was referring to the music/culture sector and that was quite obvious from the remarks, i.e. “neither in the efficiency of their management nor in their programming.”
I sadly would agree that the French music domain is far too contaminated by politics, bureaucrats and very uncreative thinking people. My experiences performing there have rarely been satisfying, but far too often dealing with very unpleasant and bad mannered people. It’s not by accident that the country has a very bad reputation for bad manners and bureaucracy.
I am French and left France to settle in Germany 22 years ago. Most French culture managers spend their energy in “keeping the control”. Whether the institution their are in charge of properly works is a secondary issue.