Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion (2010–2012) in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon.
She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which was part of the European People's Party.
Bachelot was born as Roselyne Narquin on 24 December 1946 in Nevers, France.
Her father Jean Narquin, was a résistant and gaullist député, and her mother was Yvette Le Dû, a native from Gourin, both dentists.
She has a brother, Jean-Yves Narquin, who ran for the European Parliament as a member of the National Front in 2015.
Bachelot received a Doctorate in Pharmacy.
From 1988 until 2002 and again in 2007, Bachelot was a member of the National Assembly, representing Maine-et-Loire's 1st constituency.
During that time, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs.
From 2004 until 2007, Bachelot served as a Member of the European Parliament for the west of France.
She was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
She also was a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel.
From 2007 until 2010, Bachelot served as French Minister for Health and Sports.
Since French ministers cannot be members of Parliament, she was forced to give up her seat in the European Parliament.
During her time in office, Bachelot implemented the planned prohibition on smoking in restaurants, bars, discos, casinos and other commercial pleasure enterprises in 2008.
She notably issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children.
Also in 2008, she publicly endorsed legislation introduced by Valérie Boyer which would have made the promotion of extreme dieting a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of some $45,000; it passed the French lower house, but later failed in the Senate.
She also encouraged the National Assembly of France to change the legal age to purchase alcohol in France from 16 to 18; the new law took effect in July 2009.
In 2009, Bachelot ordered 94 million vaccines from Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Baxter International for the French Government at a cost of 869 million euros (and an option on 34 million additional vaccines in 2010) to fight against the H1N1 influenza virus; however, less than 10% of French population (about 6 million people) had been vaccinated by the end of the winter.
She later canceled over half the flu vaccines ordered to combat the virus, in an effort to head off criticism after reserving too many shots.
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