Aude de Thuin, the broken momentum of a career serving women

Some of the news is shocking. The discovery of 73-year-old Aud de Thune next to the lifeless body of her husband, Hubert Ziezenis, on Tuesday, June 4, is one of them. At the time of writing, the investigation is still ongoing. about the tragedy. This tragically closes a deeply romantic trajectory and a grand love story that Aude de Thune revealed in this collection with the foreboding title: Forcing fate (Editor: Robert Laffon, 2016), which was written with psychologist Jeanne Sio Fachin and dedicated to her husband. The incipit, extract War and peace Tolstoy certainly did not surprise anyone among his many friends and those whose path he traced. Because in this native Breton’s journey there is a Russian heroine born in North Finisterre, “in this region where it is often said that we are more stubborn than the granite of our rocks,” he wrote at the time.

Difference as strength

Stubborn, he had to “pick up” himself from his childhood and a condition that had a lasting effect on him. “Happy families are all alike. Unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way,” wrote Tolstoy, again he: Anna Karenina. Far from his aristocratic and worldly persona, Aude de Thune was born to Odette Le Roux, in an environment that she had long rejected because it was already different. His father, a baker, dreams of having a son. She would have six daughters, including her second, who aspires to fill this vacant role, and the predictions that go along with it; his books. He is distinguished by his energy, his sincerity and his very large size. Furthermore, she is a redhead, historically a color of rejection. Hence, quite a rebellious youth, which seals the construction of a complex and self-conscious personality. And an endless curiosity for all the ways, all the people he feels can lead him elsewhere. It took an unhappy first marriage to Raoul de Tuin – “I married a part,” she says – which produced her beloved daughter Aurora, and a whole entrepreneurial odyssey to bring about life-saving changes. And what was revealed is the woman who will become a model for many others.

Davos for women

Because the story of Aude de Thuin is above all what an extraordinary entrepreneur. And with abundant creativity, often fueled by rebellion or anger, punctuated by outbursts or tears. But always bringing a visionary and spirited spirit to the cause he champions. The event that made him famous remains L’Art du jardin, which he started in 1993. A show that is still unrivaled, bringing together the biggest talents and the most beautiful initiatives in the industry every year at the Parc de Saint Cloud. . It would also secure his wealth, allowing him to establish this Parisian life he enlivens and to cultivate his own garden, acclaimed by amateurs in Normandy.

Just as some gardeners have green thumbs, Od can sense before others where the tide of society is about to turn. In 2005, shocked to find only or almost only men at Davos, a place where tomorrow’s world is being planned around key decision-makers, she decided to create the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society. So, a women’s Davos, where women’s voices and their ideas are expressed, and where a more inclusive and equal world is also envisioned. Delegations from all over the world meet there: China, South Africa… Big leaders and big names from Cac 40. Inspirational voices. The adventure ended for Audi, who had to hand over the event to the Publicis group in 2011 “to save it because I no longer had the means to maintain it alone,” he explains. Then Osons la France Forums, which he also created, was forced to file for bankruptcy in 2015. She had to rebuild herself financially, rebuilding her life in Morocco with businessman Hubert Ziezenis, whom she married in 1989. Give up your routine, your homes. It is bankruptcy. From this retreat and this great sadness, she later fell into severe depression, another fruitful event was born, the Women in Africa Summit, created in 2015 for African women entrepreneurs.

New ways

Concerned about the AI ​​revolution being orchestrated by mostly male programmers, she decided in May 2023 to open the ultimate forum, Sistemic, to restore a place in science for women and let the future be written with them. “Women are absent from French scientific fields in all STEM branches, i.e. science, technology, engineering and mathematics. If this trend continues as we see it today, future professions will systematically exclude women, thus mechanically allowing a return to patriarchy,” she wrote on Linkedin. Since then, many figures in mathematics, as well as Elisabeth Bourne, as president of the strategic council, have joined the Sistemic movement, the last edition of which took place on May 22 in Marseille. Yesterday. The last feat of arms.

Aude de Thuin gave so many women the courage to dare. He has a loyal companionship, love for the younger generations and the transfer has been rolled into his body. With one obsession: to make women shine. Messages exchanged since Tuesday say: today many of them have hearts in the hemisphere.