Daniel Rondeau inducted as honorary president of La Renaissance Française
Rondeau was French Ambassador from 2008 to 2011
Last month at the Institut de France in Paris, eminent French author and distinguished member of the Académie Française Daniel Rondeau was inducted as the 13th honorary president of La Renaissance Française during a ceremony presided over by French Minister of Culture Catherine Pégard.
Rondeau, who was ambassador of France in Malta from 2008 to 2011, follows in the steps of other eminent personalities such as Poincaré, founder of the institution in 1915, historian Louis Madelin, Maurice Schumann, who used to broadcast from London on the BBC French Service during World War II, and Simone Veil, who advocated women’s equality in France and, as a teenager, was deported with her family in Nazi camps.
In his acceptance speech, Rondeau emphasised the institution’s aims, among them the universal passport of the sacred word ‘liberty’ that France gave to the world, and the dissemination of the French language, merging three historical cultures namely Celtic, German and Latin. The institution engages in peaceful cultural propagation.
During the ceremony, Denis Fadda, international president of La Renaissance Française, celebrated the literary works of Rondeau, whose latest publication is Le système de l’argent (Grasset).
La Renaissance Française has several branches in a number of French cities and in several other countries. A Maltese branch will be opening soon.