(LREM) who served as Secretary of State for Child Protection in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022.

[8] Amid revelations on the Jeffrey Epstein affair in 2019, Taquet and fellow cabinet member Marlène Schiappa publicly called for an investigation to examine suspected rape and sexual abuse of under-age girls in France or abroad, in which perpetrators or victims of the crimes may have been French.

[9][10] In 2020, Taquet became one of the architects of the Castex government's reform of parental leave in France, by doubling France's paternity leave from 14 days to 28 days, with allowances paid for by the state, and by requiring fathers to take a week off with their newborn children in an effort to reduce inequalities in the first few months of children's lives.

[11] In late 2020, Taquet appointed Élisabeth Guigou to lead a government-mandated committee on sexual violence against children;[12][13] she resigned shortly after a high-profile scandal involving her friend Olivier Duhamel.

In 2021, Macron directed Taquet and Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti to develop proposals for tightening laws regarding child sexual abuse.