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- Thierry Breton was born on January 15, 1955 in Paris, France. He is a writer, known for Softwar (1992), 20 heures le journal (1981) and L'émission politique (2016).
- In 2005, he was appointed Finance and Economy Minister of France by President Jacques Chirac, after the previous minister resigned due to a scandal.
- He attended one of France's elite engineering schools, the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris, and later the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale.
- Chairman and CEO of Thomson Multimédia, 1997-2002; Chairman and CEO of France Telecom and Orange from 2002 to 2005.
- His father was a scientist at the Center for Atomic Energy.
- Taught math at a high school in New York when he was 24. He founded his own software company at the age of 26, and was only 31 when he co-founded Futuroscope, an open-air science park in Poitou-Charentes, France. He is also a science fiction author whose novels Softwar (1984), Vatican III (1985), and Netwar (1987) have been translated into 25 languages.
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