{"id":67,"date":"2025-07-12T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:59:46","slug":"membres-fondateurs-et-membres-dhonneur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/membres-fondateurs-et-membres-dhonneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding members & Honor members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founding members are : Mireille Clapot, Catherine Lef\u00e8vre, Marie Manot, Julien Roche, Val\u00e9rie Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As MP at the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024, Mireille Clapot<\/strong> chaired the France-Albania Parliamentary Friendship Group in the National Assembly and made numerous visits to Albania, both in her official capacity and privately.
\nA great admirer of Ismail Kadare, she wrote a Master\u2019s thesis in comparative literature on the theme \u2018Bridges in Balkan literature\u2019, drawing on a corpus comprising Aeschylus\u2019s The Persians<\/em>, Ivo Andri\u0107\u2019s The Bridge on the Drina<\/em>, and Ismail Kadare\u2019s The Three-Arched Bridge<\/em>. Her research, adapted into a novel, was published under the title From the Island of Diomedes, I will build this bridge<\/em> (2018) by Editions ThoT, and has also been translated into Albanian and published under the title Nga ishulli i Diomedit do ta ngre k\u00ebt\u00eb ur\u00eb<\/em> by Onufri (Tirana, Albania). Her subsequent books, Quatre dames<\/em> (Four Ladies) (2020) published by ThoT and Le dompteur du Loup-Sentier au Liban<\/em> (The tamer of the Wolf Trail in Lebanon) (2024) published by Les Impliqu\u00e9s \u00e9diteur<\/em>, part of the L\u2019Harmattan Group, also pay tribute to the work of Ismail Kadare. In May 2025, she founded the association \u2018Les amis d\u2019Ismail Kadare\u2019, of which she is the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Catherine Lef\u00e8vre<\/strong> is an operational strategy consultant. During her travels in Albania, she discovered the country\u2019s rich culture and its iconic writer, Ismail Kadare. In his work, she finds values and convictions that guide her in other voluntary commitments, such as the Cercle Pythagore. She is a member of the board of the association.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Manot<\/strong> works as an administrative manager following a career in international project management. She is deeply involved in educational support organisations and initiatives to promote children\u2019s literature. A literature enthusiast, she discovered Ismail Kadare and is now devouring his works. She is the association\u2019s treasurer and manages the register of members and supporters: please send your contact details and membership fee to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Julien Roche<\/strong> is the best-known Frenchman in Albania. Originally from Bourg-en-Bresse, this talented businessman settled in Albania in the 1980s and has contributed to the development of relations between France and Albania, both economically and politically. He is a close friend of the Kadare family, whom he accompanied to Albania and when they settled in France. President of the Franco-Albanian Chamber of Commerce, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2015 and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Skanderbeg (Albania).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Liste des membres fondateurs : Mireille Clapot, Catherine Lef\u00e8vre, Marie Manot, Julien Roche, Val\u00e9rie Thomas. Comme d\u00e9put\u00e9e de la Dr\u00f4me de 2017 \u00e0 2024, Mireille Clapot a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 le groupe d\u2019amiti\u00e9 parlementaire France-Albanie \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e Nationale et a effectu\u00e9 de nombreux s\u00e9jours en Albanie, \u00e0 titre parlementaire ou priv\u00e9.Grande admiratrice d\u2019Ismail Kadar\u00e9, elle r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesamisdismailkadare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}