PARIS -- France Telecom's Board of Directors today nominated Thierry Breton as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of France Telecom. This nomination must be approved by the French Council of Ministers, which is also meeting today. In keeping with the procedure for appointing the chairman of France Telecom, Thierry Breton was first named a member of the France Telecom Board of Directors in a decree issued by the French Ministry of Finance and registered in today's Journal Officiel. Three other new members of the France Telecom Board of Directors were also named : Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Treasury Director at the Finance Ministry, Bertrand Schneiter, a senior official at the Finance Ministry (Inspecteur General des Finances), Henri Serres, Central Director of Information Systems Security at the Defense Ministry, and Jean-Luc Tavernier, Director of Forecasting at the Finance Ministry. France Telecom SA