Élisabeth Badinter is a French philosopher, author and historian.
The Belgian Vocation Foundation is a Belgian non-profit organization, founded on 23 November 1963 by the Belgian industrialist Emile Bernheim. The foundation provides support to young people with a vocation, but who can not complete their education by lack of financial resources. Every year the Foundation awards 15 scholarships of 10,000 Euro each. Queen Fabiola is the patron of the Foundation.
Jean-Claude Merlin is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society and a discoverer of minor planets. He was laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Fondation de la Vocation in 1982 and received the Prix Georges Bidault de l'Isle of the Société astronomique de France in 1999.
Maurice Lévy is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest advertising and communications group.
Franck Amsallem is a French-American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, singer and educator. He was born in 1961 in Oran, French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.
Antoine Bello is a French-American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, whose works have been widely translated. His novels touch on multiple subjects, such as the relation between reality and fiction, human cognition and journalism. He writes in French, his native tongue. He has been living in the greater New York Area since 2002.
Camille Thomas is a Franco-Belgian cellist.
Édith Lejet was a French composer and music educator.
Arthur Sadoun is a French businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest advertising and PR group.
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet was a French entrepreneur and advertising magnate best known as the founder of Publicis Groupe.
Olivier Peyon is a French screenwriter and film director, born in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, France, on January 23, 1969.
The Sandoz Family Foundation, created in 1964, is a private Swiss foundation.
Béatrice Casadesus is a French painter and sculptor, and professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City (1985–).
Brodbeck & de Barbuat form a couple of visual artists working with photography, video and installation.
Élizabeth Teissier, née Germaine Élizabeth Hanselmann is a French astrologer and former model and actress. Between 1975 and 1976, she created a daily horoscope on French television channel Antenne 2, and in 1981, she launched the Astro Show television programme in Germany. Her personal clients included former President of France François Mitterrand, and she has published several books on astrology. A test that compared her predictions against common sense and chance failed to show any evidence of her having any special powers.
The prix littéraire de la vocation is a literary prize. Established in 1976 by the fondation Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet pour la vocation, it is intended to help a young French-speaking novelists aged 18 to 30 years.
René Koering is a French composer, film producer and theater director. He is particularly known for his involvement in the creation of the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in 1985.
Josza Anjembé, is a French filmmaker as well as a screenwriter and journalist of Cameroonian descent. She has made several critically acclaimed short films including Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux and Baltringue.
Philippe André Lefebvre is a French classical organist. He is one of three titular organists at Notre-Dame de Paris and has served as such since 1985.
