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03 May 2022

Portrait of Aurélia Dalbarade (1996): from Dexia to Emmaus Coup de Main

Published by Catherine Grandcoing (1978) | N° 3 - Revue- April 2022

 Aurelia meets me near the Gare du Nord station, two RER stations away from the Emmaus Coup de Main centre in Pantin. A year ago we would have met at the bottom of the Dexia tower in La Défense. Was it a path of rejection and rupture or a natural evolution towards what resonates deeply within her? This is the question I wanted to answer by asking her to describe her singular trajectory.


Aurélia Dalbarade grew up in Paris, in a household of senior executives, one working at EDF, the other in communications. She was not passionate about studies except for languages, the only subject in which she was really involved. Today she is fluent in Italian, English, German and French, has a school knowledge of literal Arabic and some notions of Mandarin. However, at the age of 17, in her final year of high school, the reluctant teenager had an encounter that would determine her future...

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