Philanthropist portrait

Following the Covid pandemic, cellist Gautier Capuçon launched a foundation bearing his name to help young musicians in their studies and career. 

Pap Ndiaye is a historian specializing in North American history and a pioneer of Black Studies in France. After being made director of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, home of the National Museum of the History of Immigration and the Tropical Aquarium, he was recently named Minister of Education and Youth. He shares his view of philanthropy with us.

How to face the death of a loved one, to make sense of it, and learn to live with it? After losing her husband in a climbing accident in Nepal, Fabienne Clauss chose the high road, reacting with generosity and grace. On October 5, 1995, Himalaya mountaineer Benoît Chamoux set out for his ascension of Kangchenjunga, his fourteenth summit over eight thousand meters, accompanied by Pierre Royer and Riku, their high-altitude Sherpa guide. Pierre and Benoît did not return; neither did Riku.

Born in Beirut with France his adoptive country, this former entrepreneur created Fondation Ghazal pour l’Éducation, la Recherche et la Paix au Liban (Ghazal Foundation for Education, Research and Peace in Lebanon) in 2012. This is a foundation that strives to help the country’s communities to live together more harmoniously and to contribute to its reconstruction – all the more crucial given the tragedy that occurred on August 4, last year.