Who we are
The 2025 – 2026 Board of Directors of the Comité du cœur.
First row: Angela Alves, Arlette Tabart, Claude Lemesle.
Second row: Marc Attali, Manou Roblin, Béatrice Thiriet, Sauvane Masmondet Delanoë, René Grolier.
Third row: Anne Goldstein, Roger-Pierre Hermont, Serge Perathoner, Marie-Jeanne Serero, Michel Pelay, Erick Benzi.
Absents: Gérard Layani, Patrick Sigwalt, Frédéric Zeitoun.
Photo credits: Eddine Photographie.
The Comité du cœur, a shared solidarity
The Comité du cœur is an association founded in 1951 and registered as a charity since 1953. Its purpose is to help authors and composers who are facing serious financial difficulties.
At present, more than 1,500 Sacem members allocate a small percentage of their royalties to fund the Comité du cœur, which in turn offers every year one-off financial aids to artists facing serious difficulties, provided they can prove that they have made a living from their royalties.
Bequests and assignments of rights have also resulted in the creation of awards to recognise creators who have followed in the donors’ path.
The constant work carried out by the Comité du cœur throughout the year to respond efficiently, and often in urgent situations, to the ever-increasing need for mutual aid is the result of the Board and the Chevalier committee members’ commitment, acting with the enthusiasm, discipline and humanity that their mission of support and solidarity requires.
To read
Comité du cœur statutes
The Comité du cœur Board of directors (2025−2026)
* Members of the Chevalier committee
Presidency
Arlette Tabart*
President
“The true face of music is sharing. Although fraternity is written on our facades, it all too often gives way to individualism and inward-looking behaviour. More than ever, we need to rally around our shared values. Only together we can ensure the dignity of our professions.”
— Arlette Tabart, president of the Comité du cœur
Vice-presidency
Claude Lemesle*
Vice-president
marie-jeanne serero*
Vice-president
Secretariat
Michel Pelay*
Secretary
Treasury
Béatrice Thiriet*
Treasurer
The directors
Marc Attali*
Erick Benzi*
Sauvane Delanoë
Anne Goldstein*
René Grolier*
Gérard Layani*
Serge Perathoner*
Manou Roblin*
Patrick Sigwalt*
Fréderic Zeitoun*
The Comité du cœur general delegate
Angela Alves
General delegate
Photo credits: Lionel Pages (for Arlette Tabart), Christian Chamourat (for Angela Alves), DR (for Marc Attali, Gérard Layani and Erick Benzi), Baptiste Marcon (for Serge Perathoner) and Marc Chesneau (for everyone else).
“The Comité du cœur also provides support for social and musical associations.
It gives awards, each one of them being as much a token of admiration as a welcome financial boost.”— Claude Lemesle, author and vice-president of the Comité du cœur
