On Monday 6 July 2020, Thierry Lentz, who has been Director of the Fondation since 4 July 2000, was presented with the official medal in recognition of his twenty years of work, by President Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling. A modest “ceremony” brought together the entire Fondation team almost 20 years to the day after the beginning of this collaboration.

We also learned that, by an order of 29 June 2020, Thierry Lentz was promoted to the rank of “officier des Arts et Lettres” [the Ordre des Arts et Lettres is a French order established in recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or to the propagation of these fields].

[published 10 July 2020]