Maxime Tandonnet
French civil servant and writer (1958–2024)
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Maxime Tandonnet (7 October 1958 – 21 September 2024) was a French civil servant and writer.[1]
Maxime Tandonnet | |
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Tandonnet in 2016 | |
| Subprefect of the Arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | |
| In office 1994–1996 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-François Delage |
| Succeeded by | Frédéric Benet-chambellan |
| Private secretary of the Prefect of Yvelines | |
| In office 1993–1994 | |
| Preceded by | Jérôme Gutton |
| Succeeded by | Francis Vuibert |
| Private secretary of the Prefect of Indre-et-Loire | |
| In office 1992–1993 | |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Buttin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 October 1958 |
| Died | 21 September 2024 (aged 65) |
| Education | Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux École nationale d'administration |
| Occupation | Civil servant Writer |
Life and career
Born in Caudéran 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 Prefect of Yvelines Claude Érignac. In 2008, he was named a member of the Inspection générale de l'administration.[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][12] and the Revue Politique et Parlementaire.[13] He also became a guest instructor on immigration policy at Paris-East Créteil University in 2011.[14]
Tandonnet died on 21 September 2024,[1] at the age of 65.[12]
Publications
- Le Grand Bazar ou l'Europe face à l'immigration (2001)
- La Nouvelle Vague (2002)
- Le Défi de l'immigration (2003)
- Immigration: sortir du chaos (2006)[15]
- Géopolitique des migrations: la crise des frontières (2007)
- 1940: un autre 11 novembre (2009)[16]
- Histoire des présidents de la République (2013)[17][18]
- Au cœur du volcan, Carnets de l'Elysée 2007–2012 (2014)
- Droit des étrangers et de l'accès à la nationalité (2016)
- Les parias de la République (2017)[19]
- André Tardieu, l'incompris (2019)[20]
- Georges Bidault: de la Résistance à l'Algérie française (2022)[21]