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How to help the Comité du cœur?
Thanks to your donations and memberships, the Comité du cœur has been helping creators in difficulty and, by extension, the creative world as a whole, for 70 years already. There are a number of ways in which you can help the Comité du cœur. And, as the Comité du cœur…
Facing life challenges with the Comité du cœur
The life of an artist is by no means a bed of roses. That is why, in 1951, Maurice Chevalier and so many others created the Comité du cœur. Over all these years, to cope with life’s ups and downs, our mutual aid and support association for Sacem members is still…
The Claude Arrieu award, the last spark of the season
The Claude Arrieu award, given in July to Farnaz Modarresifar, is still not well-known to the Comité du Cœur community. Yet it is the legacy of a great composer who bequeathed her royalties to the Comité du Cœur to reward a promising young composer every two years in…
The heart in every season
Back in the day in Montmartre, the Montmartre of Bruant, Canetti and Patachou, among other small trades that no longer exist, among the blacksmiths, street singers and other tradesmen, there were pleasant and rather strong ladies known as “marchandes des…
Happiness is in giving
« Le bonheur est dans le pré » (Happiness is in the meadow) wrote very beautifully the prince of poets, Paul Fort, and our great Georges Brassens set some of his most beautiful verses to music. And I hear “Happiness is in giving”. The creators of melodies and texts…
