We gathered for a second consecutive year in Soisy-Sur-Seine, in association with the Civic Star and the European Star of Civil and Military Dedication.
Many people were there and we particularly thank Mrs. Sylvie Charbonnier, Director of this professional school of ONAC, who receives us under the high presidency of the Prefect Rémy ENFRUN, Director of ONAC.
The ceremony begins with a speech by Serge Guillemot, then a presentation of distinctions from the Etoile Civique, followed by our presentations, together with Anh Dao Traxel who had insisted, despite their general assembly in the afternoon, to present the distinctions from EEDCM , to those who could not make it to their closing party on the Péniche du Cercle de la Mer.
At the end of our presentation, all together after the speech of the Prefect Rémy Enfrun, we sang the Marseillaise as usual with a confirmed tenor Richard Finell d’Auxois. We also welcome the presence of Admiral Jacques Blanc who will assist us in the presentation of the distinctions, as well as the presence of the Honorary Grand Chief of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Guillaume Carle.
After the handover we go, not under the foliage like last year, but in the dining room for a pleasant aperitif graciously offered by the RICARD house, of which Nicole and Bernard Ricard were among us. The weather not being favorable to our feasts, we had planned this alternative scenario, the end of the afternoon proved us right. Then, place at the copious and quality buffet according to the words of the guests.
Roger BILLIET-PRADES
Being retained in Savoy for professional reasons, it is Mr. Picaud, already honored with our medal who will receive that of Mr. Billiet-Prades. We mandate him to offer him our sincere congratulations and to send him our diploma and medal.
Born in 1961 in Annecy, you went to rescue in 1981, then to administrative training. After an applied CNFPT officer training in Chambéry, you joined the national school of the municipal police of Orange – class of 1990. You trained as a CNFPT police chief in Grenoble, in 1998 and went on to train as a trainer.
At the same time, you obtained your diplomas in the practice of team first aid.
In 2005 until 2008, you climbed the ladder by continuing your training in Lyon.
You are currently Head of the Municipal Police Department (exceptional class) in Courchevel.
You are also a volunteer firefighter.
You prefer to invest in the close relationship rather than repression. In these resorts of great prestige, you must pay particular attention to traffic offenses due to the effects of alcohol and narcotics. This with perfect coordination with the National Police, without making too many waves, because the primary concern is to reassure holidaymakers and that noise and misdeeds do not disturb the tranquility for which Courchevel is renowned.
You are also in charge of checking the sports facilities and their compliance, so that their practice is safe.
You are also delegated to carry out funeral operations. You have been responsible for state revenue management since 2003.
Also sworn in for speed checks, as well as considered as a single point of contact for accommodation emergency plans.
You are also involved in the training of your colleagues, since you are a proofreader, member of the jury, and designer of tests for training competitions, in different regions such as Burgundy, the Alps, Rhone, Haute-Savoie, Savoy, etc.
You have thus spent 28 years serving your fellow citizens, enforcing the rules relating to the environment and the preservation of alpine nature, for the comfort and well-being of your fellow citizens.
The Universal League for Public Good is pleased to present you with its Silver Medal.
Adjudant José TIRACHE
Since October 1986, incorporated into the training center for auxiliary gendarmes in Tulle, you have climbed the ranks to go up to the capital in the 1st regiment of the Republican Guard. Lacking emotions, you pass your skydiving initiation certificate.
In 1989, you were promoted to Gendarme, and in 1991, you were admitted to the corps of career non-commissioned officers.
In 1997, you headed for major services and were seconded to Kellermann’s mixed circle as assistant manager. Then in 1997, you were transferred to the Circle of National Gendarmerie Officers as Deputy Director.
Tirelessly you continue to pass the diplomas, all over the place, Arms, management, command and restoration.
You are promoted to Warrant Officer in 2005 In view of your numerous service records and a great appreciation of your moral values, you receive the National Defense Gold Medal
Alongside all these service records that I had to abbreviate in order not to weigh down my speech, we find you on the favorite terrain of your hobbies: the car stands.
Passionate (the word is weak) of motor sports, you have been a volunteer in a karting team for 5 years, then currently since 1994, we find you as a volunteer in a car team at the 24 hours of Le Mans, where you try to share your passion with the youngest.
Since the closing of the Napoleon circle which welcomed us for our discounts, you have made it a point of honor to receive us in another place, that of Kellermann, of which you are the head of the mess
It was therefore natural that your superior at the Circle of Officers, Major Berthelot, join us so that we can honorably present you with our Silver Medal with Palm.
Thierry METAIREAU
Better known in the professional world as Thierry de la Plaine Saint-denis
Born in 1972 in the Gironde, he came to Paris. Thierry is a host and columnist for the show.
Columnist at Auto-Moto, co-host with Michel Drucker at the night of the fire at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
Host for TF1 at the Paris Motor Show with the help of Harry Roselmack and Evelyne Delhiat. Room manager with Dechavanne, Jean-Pierre Foucault, Nikos Aliagas, Vincent Lagaf, Patrick Sabatier, Tex, Julien Lepers.
He is also a man of the stage through his one man show opening for Anne Roumanof and Alabina at the Olympia.
He won the “imitator” category at Graine de Star by Laurent Boyer.
Dancer, singer in a comedy of “Once upon a time Bobino” then “Tour de Cabaret” at the Théâtre des Deux Anes then at the Don Camillo.
Despite all his performing art, he is involved in the associative world and ensures retransmission and animations voluntarily for the theater. He is also always present for a humanitarian cause.
For all your commitment which could only grow, the Universal League is happy to give you its Silver medal with Palm.
Richard FINELL d'AUXOIS
From the age of 4 you had a revelation about operetta, theater and music and you decided to make a career out of it.
You spend several years at the Schola cantorum in piano harmony class. Then with Luis Mariano on the Chatelet stage, you opt for opera.
You perform the understudy of Georges Guétary, then you meet with Francis Lopez. He composed 3 bespoke operettas, such as La Marseillaise, La Belle Otéro, and Sissi, to a libretto by Nadine de Rotschild.
You become a director of many light lyrical shows. You are entrusted with the artistic direction of the Théâtre de la Coupe d’Or in Rochefort sur Mer, then that of the Théâtre de l’Eldorado in Paris.
A showman, you put on numerous shows every year through the company Fééries Costumes. A confirmed rider, at the end of the 90s you created a charity association with horse riding professionals. Its purpose is to help and assist any person with motor and mental disabilities, any beaten or violated child, and this for getting back in the saddle both on a moral level and help via horse therapy.
You are the secretary general of the Institute of the Royal House of France which endeavors to defend the French royal heritage near the Count of Paris. This Institute is present in major national and international causes, in particular to help underprivileged children in Madagascar. You have been a Knight of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint-Lazare of Jerusalem since 2005, there too, you are involved in helping others. In your broad and dense commitment, in the spheres of Public Good, we are proud to present you with our Gold Medal.
Daniel André NOURY
You lived in 93 and that did not make you give up, quite the contrary, you fight even more so that young people are less and less handicapped by this co-rating of 9-3.
You have climbed all the levels in the hierarchy of your educational team. You have a law degree and have prepared for the ENA. You turned to political marketing, in the field of communication in order to promote the political candidate. You have therefore participated in the municipal, cantonal of your agglomeration as well as the regional ones. Your axis being the quality of life in the Grenelle of the environment, as well as in the problems related to the suburbs, studies of the RSA and RMI. You act as an interface between the press and politicians.
You hosted and managed a radio station: Voltage FM, as well as an international development structure between France and the USA, with the establishment of a site with Miami. This association is responsible for facilitating student relations in the socio-educational and cultural context. You are preparing a trip for the benefit of the children of the estates.
Obviously, your life is focused on the problems of the suburbs, and through your role as parliamentary attaché, you want to send a message to politicians. Therefore, by awarding you its Silver Medal with Crown, the Ligue du Bien Public joins you in this fight for integration and equal opportunities.
Jacky HUON
Born on March 21, 1947 in Rennes, you studied in Brittany, then you joined the Navy and were stationed at the Lan Bihoué base.
Your studies as a locksmith and industrial designer made you work at Bougies Champion then in other companies, and this for 40 years since you are now retired, but not inactive.
Participation in the organization of events at the Telethon for the Brittany region.
Gathering of bikers for Mucoviscidose, for 6 years the Cyrille ride for the benefit of the Telethon.
The Jumbo-run rally for a disabled person in each sidecar.
With Handicap et Liberté, you participate in the operation 3500 wheelchairs for Tunisia and Morocco. 10 missions carried out, then 6 vehicles delivered to Morocco, supervised by 57 volunteers, you transported 250 m3 of equipment by container, 90 m3 by road transport with more than 50 sponsors and partners.
Your actions materialize around:
The Wheels of Freedom with wheelchairs,
Deci-Dela with transportation for nursing home residents,
Handicap workshop, for the maintenance and repair of armchairs and others distributed free of charge,
Handi-Market, provision of wheelchairs in super and hyper markets for people with reduced mobility,
Handi Com, information, conference on solidarity for colleges, high schools and the general public,
Handi Orthèse, to avoid the aggravation of the pathologies of the handicapped by carrying out by a prosthetist adaptations on the spot during the distribution of armchairs,
Coup de Coeur, responding to specific actions falling within the scope of our vocations: the divers of Cap Sim (Morocco); Handi Lu Net in partnership with the Franco-Swiss Althéa Foundation,
Mission to Andorra (6 carried out to date), Operation Keltouma, Amal Orphanage in Fez.
For all these humanitarian actions, the Universal League for Public Good is particularly proud to present you with its Silver Medal with Crown.
Agostinho MARTINS
You were born in 1948 in Portugal in Celorico de Beira, and after your school studies, you started in hairdressing at the age of 11. Then you arrive in France in 1965, you are married and already a grandfather.
You worked for 10 years at LEGRIS before opening your own salon in 1977.
Passionate about your profession, since 1986 you have participated in many hairdressing competitions both in France and abroad, individually or as a team.
Your track record is impressive:
In 1986 – 1st prize in Lille with an artistic trophy as well as a 1st prize in the Coupe de France in Clermont-Ferrand.
In 1987, Coupe de la Rose de Doué, in Angers, then the Lauriers d’Or in Cannes.
You are the first French hairdresser to win this international cup.
French team, of which you were the captain in 1988 and 1989.
In 1988, you had the Grand Prix and gold medal in team and individual in Darmstadt. A 1st prize Gold medal by team at the International Biennial of Trento (Italy). European Cup and gold medal by team, then the Georges Hardy Cup individually in the French championship.
In 1989 in Egypt, you won the Gold medal and the Oscar and you even won the Gold medal individually.
The consecration will take place in Cannes where the team won the World Cup, the Gold Medal and the Oscar de la Coiffure. These different competitions take place within the framework of the Cercle des Arts et Techniques de la Coiffure française CAT, of which you were one of the leaders.
You were coach of the France team and in 1991 you became artistic director.
At the same time, you are training hundreds of young people in this profession that has fascinated you.
You are a creator, a true artist and also a person close to the values that we defend.
For all these reasons, our Diplomas Commission awards you its Silver Medal with Crown.
Gérard FAUGERE
You were born on January 13, 1946 in Bordeaux;
You joined the French Navy in 1965, after completing your secondary studies. You pass your anti-submarine detector exams, and you opt to serve in that department. After having climbed the ranks of the maitrance, then those of officer, you obtain your rank of Captain of Frigate. You left the army in 1997.
You have of course served on board many classic submarines such as Junon, Psychée, Ouessan, etc., then in nuclear submarines such as the Redoutable, the Indomptable, etc., as well as attack ones such as Saphir , Emerald, etc.
You also commanded two ships: the Dauphin submarine for two years, and the first-class oceanographic vessel d’Entrecasteaux, for eighteen months.
It is therefore almost 32 years spent in the French Navy, including 29 spent in the submarine forces that you retired. But you remain inactive nonetheless, because you joined the AGASM association, that of submariners, of which you have been the national treasurer since 2005.
You have obtained for your missions and your services rendered the Legion of Honor, as well as the National Order of National Merit as well as Maritime.
Decorated with the Overseas Medal with Lebanon clasp, National Defense Silver Medal with clasp, Submarine and Foreign Assistance Mission. Also bronze medal of Voluntary Military Services, the French Commemorative Medal clip ex-Yugoslavia, as well as the Bronze Medal of Youth and Sports.
You have received the Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service SHOM button.
Many voluntary actions have earned you the medal of the City of Bordeaux. From 1998 until 2003, you took charge of the operation of the former cruiser Colbert and turned it into a museum. In 2006, you created your own maritime and naval expertise company, NAVEXPERTAM.
For your work in the service of the population and humanity, we are particularly honored to present you with our Silver Medal with Crown.
Michel SANDOZ
Born in 1959 in Romilly-sur-Seine in Aube, you are married and have 4 children.
Sport and competition have been a common thread since childhood. You started at the age of 6 with judo until the age of 16, then you were attracted to motocross and participated with Thierry Sabine in the Enduro and trial of Le Touquet. You then renew with combat sports, in particular karate, at the Occitan club of Montpellier with Francis Didier, currently president of this French Karate Federation.
You had studied electronics, which allowed you to carry out various activities according to your thirst for knowledge.
In the Motorcycle Dealership sector: YAMAHA and KTM in Berk sur Mer, then HONDA in Montpellier. Then you become a commercial agent for motorcycle accessories at PIRELLI, ROOF, METZELER, ABUS for the West Indies for 5 years.
You are interested in music with the creation of the DPA Association (Development of Artistic Professions.
A short tour of the cinema with a few roles in short films and figuration in feature films, in particular Merci la Vie by Bertrand Blier and Le sexe weak by Serge Ménard.
You are passionate about computers and the Internet and in 1999 you created Multimedia Sandoz Trading, a company that allows companies and their managers to access the strategic advantages of a presence on the web as well as training on social networks. Facebook.
It is within this framework of competence that ANANS (Association des Amis de Nicolas Sarkosy) contacted you for the creation and management of the association’s internet communication in view of the elections.
In 2008, you accepted the position of financial agent in order to transform ANANS into a purely political association and thus participate in the presidential campaign.
At the Elysée garden party in 2009, you met Anh Dao as well as Emmanuel Traxel, and told you
You register outside of all political considerations for the purposes of solidarity and mutual aid of our respective but complementary associations.
We are therefore particularly pleased to welcome you and present you with our Silver Medal with Crown.
Gérard LUBIN
Born in 1950 in Etampes, you opted for a military career in the French Navy. Completed as First Missilian Master. You had been assigned to the oceano-strategic base of the French Navy aboard the submarines: Ariane-Psyché-Junon-Galatée-Foudroyant-Terrible-Provence-Rubis and back on the Juno until 1983. Then as First Petty Officer of the 20th company in Colombes from 1983 to 1986 when you ended your military career.
A man of duty and tradition, you have led all your missions with honor and discipline and with the rigor required by the confined cohabitation in the submarine with your collaborators.
Your sense of human relationships led you from the end of your career to take care of your military comrades, so today you became President of the Poncelet section at the AGASM, association of submariners whose president, the Admiral Jacques Blanc is here today.
As part of the Universal League of Public Good, we are honored to present you with honor our Silver medal with palm and crown.
DIAS Patrick
After a degree in the design of surgical instruments, he did his military service in Nice and Verdun in the Transmissions. After a competition at the Banque de France in a security and cash transport service. All your missions are done in apparent stress with a motorized escort from the Gendarmerie. You then become responsible for a team of 25 people.
At the same time, you have been sent by the town hall of Fresnes to Narbonne for an internship to pass your diploma as a youth center leader. You were an instructor at the Red Cross in roadside aid stations. Later you got involved in the GIGN association that you frequented, then chaired by Christian Prouteau.
In your city of Brunoy, whose senator mayor Beteille holds the gold medal of the League, you are present in local life and particularly in the reintegration of young people in difficulty.
You are also a holder of the Great Gold Labor Medal – of the Justice Medal (APIJ). To these will be added our Silver medal with Palm and Crown. The Office of the Universal League sends you its heartfelt thanks.
Joël KAIGRE
After your integration as a free candidate at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidam combined arms military school, you climb all the levels and retire with the 2nd level of Colonel. I will not list your career and feats of arms, that would be too long, I will only mention your commitment to humanitarian and associative work in the city.
From 1969-1975, involvement with young people in various movements as head of sector, then department of Catholic action for children, then director of holiday camps for the paralyzed in France, as well as educator for epileptics and children unsuitable for White Butterflies.
From 1979 to 1982, you were a scout troop leader in Angers, then from 1992 to 1995 representative of the 39th promotion of the association of engineers graduates from the Superior School of Military Engineering of Versailles. From 1995 to 1997, you were president of Epaulette in Seine-Maritime. In 1996 you left for the restructuring of a Serbian orphanage and several aid missions to the Croat, Serbian and Bosnian populations in Mostar, on Mount Ignan and in various villages of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
From 1999 to the present day, you are the founding president of the anti-personnel mine clearance association: HAMAP.
From 199 to the present day, Founding President of the Comité du Souvenir Français de Chaville.
You have to your credit two drowning rescues, as well as numerous fire missions, protection of the population.
The French Republic has already decorated you for services rendered to the Nation with its Legion of Honor, as well as the National Order of Merit, as well as many other civil and military distinctions.
The Universal League could not do better than to give you its gold medal in turn, in the presence of the personalities here today, the Prefect Rémy Enfrun, Director of ONAC as well as Admiral Jacques Blanc.
Aurélien GARCIA
It was in 1947, on January 14 on the then French territory of Sidi-Bel-Abbès, that your eyes discovered the Algerian sun and the energy it gave to those who knew how to feast on it to forge characters. well soaked.
This energy, all your so-called active life, you will devote to others, in a daily fight for the defence, the maintenance or the creation of activities which always leads to the same objective: to save or create jobs because for you , as your father taught you, man always derives his dignity from work. It is now your children who have taken over these values, which makes you and your wife proud.
Until the age of 9 you will stay in Oujda in Morocco, then in 1955, return to France where your family will settle in Haute Saône in Villersexel.
Belfort for secondary studies, Nancy and Paris for higher education.
And here comes May 1968 with its wind of change and its breath of hope for the young idealist that you are then. A great opportunity at 21 to consume a little of this energy in the service of student union activism. This will not prevent you from obtaining an ENSM engineering degree.
Odd student jobs will help finance your studies and this passion for travel that will take you around the world on foot, in a 2CV, in search of others and their differences.
The guitar and rock music will be your best interpreters to reduce cultural distances.
1973 will whistle the end of recess, and it is the American Burroughs, then the second largest manufacturer in the world, who will offer you your first job as a sales engineer in computer science.
Then 7 years of experience at the law firm LAMY and finally 7 more years as commercial director at PERROT, manufacturer of machine tools.
In 1984, the chemical contact of your young but rich industrial experience and your social sensitivity produced a spark that propelled you to DATAR to occupy a post of Industrialization Commissioner in charge of the conversion center of Le Creusot to erase the devastating effects on employment and economic activity in the region of the consequences of the liquidation of Creusot-Loire and the closure of the coal mines of the Bassin Center Midi.
Faced with these 6,000 lost jobs, you will need 5 years of energy and imagination to set up 150 new activity structures resulting in the creation of 6,000 new jobs.
The French State which poached you from the private sector is proud to reclaim the success of this successful industrial conversion which still serves as a reference today.
Michel ROCARD, then Prime Minister, will entrust you in 1990 on the proposal of the Minister for Regional Planning Jacques CHEREQUE with a new mission in Corsica. After a good promising start, all crowned with success and the experience acquired at Le Creusot, your strong character, your overflowing energy, your outspokenness end up irritating the Corsican sensibility and they will make you pay for it.
Indeed, a Corsican nationalist commando will kidnap you brutally and after several trying days of sequestration will free you. Harsh moral test. And need a change of scenery.
After having chained so much private and public experience, it is very tempting to want to fly on your own and this is how during 4 years as an independent consultant you will successfully multiply the missions in France and abroad.
Sensitive to new, more ambitious opportunities, you successively accept positions at the highest level at CADIC COMBERT International Consultants, in the LORENZI Conseil group or even more recently in the ALTEDIA Group as Vice President of DML Conseil. OUF this is a busy career that January 1, 2010 will salute by welcoming you as a young retiree.
We cannot go through half a century so full of activities without emotional and comforting support. The first will be those of your wife Soraya and your 3 boys Romain, Clément and Maxime..
The second supporters will be those of your faithful friends who know they can count on you in all circumstances and who throughout this journey will in turn have shown themselves to be always present, tolerant, discreet to share with you what is simply called shared friendship.
The Universal League of Public Good distinguishes those who participate in the national and international influence of public good and social progress. It recognizes those who are committed to the Defense of Human Rights and Respect for Citizens.
It is for all of these qualities and for all the richness of your personal history that the Universal League for Public Good wanted to honor you with its distinction by welcoming you into its Association and awarding you the Gold Medal.
Habiba NEFISSI
After brilliant studies on the benches of the school, which concluded with a Letters baccalaureate passed at the University of Tunis and freshly married, you settle in Paris. From 1974 to 1977 we see you Assistant Librarian at the City of Paris Library, then host in a local radio station in the Arab World from 1979 to 1981. From 1983 to 1992 you were a receptionist-salesperson in optics.
You are heading towards the associative life that you will never leave.
You create the Association of Women of the Rally of Tunisians in France – “Messages”, on December 27, 1993.
The objective of your association is to create a balance of identity and to make our young people responsible citizens who honor their two respective countries.
You supervise young bi-nationals, in the European national context.
Your many responsibilities have given you access to all facets of communication, management and organization.
You have animated in this associative framework musical comedies, in France and Tunisia, also exhibitions which brought together painters from different countries whose objective is the opening and the sharing of culture. You are also constructing conferences on Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights. Several cultural activities that took place in well-targeted places such as: Maison de l’Europe, Maison Radio France, Paris City Hall, the City Hall of the 4th arrondissement, the annex of the Consulate General of Tunisia in Paris and the Center Socio -Tunisian culture.
Every year and for 12 years, you organize a humanitarian caravan entitled “Solidarity Always” which is intended for children, needy people and hospitals in Tunisia. It consists of duvets for the winter, equipment to equip certain departments of a hospital, clothing for adults and children, and always new equipment and clothing. Your idea is to mobilize the new generation of Tunisians living in France, in favor of their compatriots living in the country.
This year your caravan is heading towards Gafsa, for the 14th edition, the objective of which is the creation of computer clubs for disadvantaged young people in the region, tending to make them acquire knowledge which allows integration into the professional framework and evolve according to the needs of the country. So you have bought complete computers of the latest technology that you are going to hand over to them.
You strongly defend the cultural values of Tunisia and those of France by putting face to face the identity strength of the two countries.
Madam, as you say yourself, “Tunisia runs through my veins, it is the engine of my life”. Loyalty and unwavering devotion to your two countries are your supreme values.
For your commitment, your fight, your achievements and all of your human qualities, the Universal League proudly awards you its Gold Medal.
Evert VAN DER ZEE
Your name evokes the Flemish impressionist painters of northern Europe. Obviously since you were born in the Kingdom of Holland in the Netherlands, in 1952 on October 11th. It is certainly the harshness of the climate that contributed to making you this robust fellow who set out to conquer the world to exercise the profession of builder.
Because Holland is such a small country that by leaving from any point in less than three hours by car, without realizing it, one can have crossed 3 countries and speak 3 different languages, even though the Dutch is a difficult and uncommon language.
It was after 7 years of long higher education at the Polytechnic School of Leeuwarden that you followed up with studies in architecture at the University of DELFT, then in London with specific training in history.
Of course you speak 3 foreign languages, English of course but also German and French which we will put to the test later.
Registered in the register of Dutch Architects, you will naturally develop a brilliant international career which will lead you to stay in London, Rome, Granada, Berlin, Prague, Paris, Warsaw to learn, do journalism, win an architecture prize and then build housing, public buildings, offices, shopping centers and quite naturally, passing from matter to spirit, be asked to participate in the reflection and the search for ideas on the reconversion of industrial or commercial wastelands of city centers.
No wonder then that Banque AMRO entrusts you with the French presidency of its subsidiary MDC, which specializes in the creation of gigantic shopping centers whose originality always impresses consumers and delights investors.
And yes ! in Holland, every m2 is precious. Thus, when a Dutch architect turned financier instructs a shopping center project, he does not look at all like those we are used to meeting in France.
You know how to favor the inhabitant over the habitat and this is how your shopping centers look more like centers of life than buildings placed there like sardine boxes surrounded by car parks.
In your projects, it is life that you put forward. Of course, there are shops and therefore shops, but also homes, green spaces, light, leisure facilities (cinema, restaurant, casino, theatre), hotels and public services. And the car parks are buried to be better hidden.
In France, we can appreciate, among other things, two of your most beautiful achievements in Vichy, but especially in Arcueil where the “Les Portes d’Arcueil” center that you built represents more than 400,000 m² for a budget of more than 300 million euros. euros.
And today, we can say that it is also a commercial and financial success.
It was in 2004 that you seized the opportunity to stand on your own feet by creating your own firm, and by multiplying new experiences, both by participating in the renovation of numerous buildings of the embassies of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as ‘by supporting city center conversion projects in Rotterdam, The Hague, Doetinchem, Utrecht and Gouda.
The economic, political and financial crisis of the past 2 years will stimulate your imagination. You cannot stand the fatality of failure, and you realize that there is a lot to be done to bring life and activity back to the city center neighborhoods that have become deprived, left to their own devices and to insecurity and where the job leads to idleness and excesses.
Your idea is simple but sound. Shopping malls need to change. Those who want to sell their products there must also participate in their construction. This is enough to revive activity and the local economy and thus allow many unemployed people to find their way back to employment and therefore to dignity.
This idea is so generous and judicious that some of your friends have even thought that Europe should recover it so that once labeled, the community can offer the recipe and its cook to all the cities of Europe with more than 50,000 inhabitants, and there are many of them, who encounter the same difficulties.
And then, you love France. You love him so much that your two children bear names from our region: Anne-Fleur for your daughter, and Maxime for your son, even though Bianca, your wife, who supports you with all her love has distant roots. much more exotic.
You love France so much that you have also made good and true loyal friends there who appreciate your company and your welcome when it comes to promoting your country, its traditions and sometimes its farmhouse cheese.
The Kingdom of Holland has an ancestral and customary tradition of identifying its distinctions by always borrowing the symbolism of animals.
The Universal League for Public Welfare subscribes to it willingly since your medal will feature the emblem of a dove, a symbol of peace, fidelity, grace and probity.
It is for all of your qualities and for all the richness of your personal history that the Universal League for Public Good wanted to honor you with its distinction by welcoming you into its Association and awarding you the Gold Medal.
