“Spokesperson,” by Camille Chaize: spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, mission impossible?
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Camille Chaize, former police commissioner and spokesperson for the Interior Ministry. Pictured here in the ministry's press room at the Hôtel de Beauvau, January 15, 2025. SÉBASTIEN SORIANO/FIGAROPHOTO
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Review In this testimony, the former police commissioner, trained on the job in communications, explains how difficult it is to find one's place in the permanent maelstrom. ★★★☆☆
Her experience as a firefighter reservist certainly predisposed her for the position. For five years, between 2020 and 2025, Camille Chaize was the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, a position where urgency is constant and the essential mission consists of putting out the media fires that follow one another. Added to this is the media frenzy and that of the occupant of Place Beauvau, always quick to fire off a tweet or comment, everywhere, all the time, immediately, since the position has become the springboard for ambitious politicians.
"In my view of the profession, a spokesperson must reflect the personality of their authority, compensate for some of their excesses or shortcomings, and balance the effects of their communication to counterbalance and moderate it," writes Camille Chaize in "Porte-parole," the book in which this former Parisian suburban commissioner, trained on the job in communications, recounts her time at the ministry.
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