 The Ministry of Culture is located on the Palais Royal in Paris.The modern post of Minister of Culture was created by Charles de Gaulle in 1959 and the first Minister was the writer André Malraux.Malraux was responsible for realizing the goals of the "droit à la culture" ("the right to culture") -- an idea which had been incorporated in the French constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- by democratizing access to culture, while also achieving the Gaullist aim of elevating the "grandeur" ("greatness") of post-war France.