Aude de thuin biography of michael

It was the last week of May. A bourgeois Parisian dinner party was being held near the Luxembourg Gardens. The evening's hosts were entertaining three other couples. All were in their seventies and eighties, with the tanned complexions that mark the leisure time of a retired business class that remains proudly active. A tall, light-eyed redhead introduced herself, holding out her hand: "Aude de Thuin, entrepreneur." This calling card is important to her.

A high priestess of corporate trade shows since the 1980s and the founder, in 2005, of the famed Women's Forum de Deauville, which brings together the worlds of French and international business, de Thuin is a brand name for a certain generation and milieu. With her lacquered blow-dry, stoles and long necklaces, she for years embodied the women, often from the liberal right, who claim power as a model of feminism and whose audacity and good-natured elegance enchant the readers of Madame Figaro – the magazine of the conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro.

On that May evening, she and her husband, Hubert Zieseniss, the seemingly perfect couple, were acting true to form: he, 83, a warm but reserved businessman and she, 10 years younger, the fiery event creator who spoke on their behalf. A few days earlier, on May 22, "under the high patronage of Emmanuel Macron," she had organized the first regional edition of her latest venture, Sistemic, a trade show designed to raise awareness of the under-representation of women in the artificial intelligence sector, at the MuCEM museum in Marseille.

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