The French Bridge Federation (french: Fédération Française de Bridge - ''FFB'') is the national organization for
bridge in
France. The president is
Patrick Grenthe and the treasurer is
Guy Auer. There are also three vice-presidents and 29 regional committees, whose chairmen compose a federation council (''conseil fédéral''). The headquarters of the French Bridge Federation is in
Saint-Cloud, near
Paris. It was founded in 1933 and is the third largest bridge federation in the world with over 100,000 members.
The federation also organizes the
French Bridge Championship (''Championnat de France de bridge'').
Organisation
* President:
Patrick Grenthe
* Vice-president (Communications, development, marketing): Patrick Bogacki
* Vice-president (competitions, international): Jean-Daniel Chalet
* Vice-president (Bridge university): Pierre Saguet
* Treasurer:
Guy Auer
* General secretary: Patern Henry
The president, the vice-presidents, and the general secretary are elected to 4-year terms.
French bridge players
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Pierre Albarran
Pierre Albarran (18 May 1893 – 24 February 1960) was a French auction and contract bridge player and theorist, and a tennis player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He d ...
, player and theorist
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Jean-Daniel Chalet, vice-president of the French Bridge Federation
*
Pierre Jaïs
Pierre Jaïs (13 October 1913 – 24 June 1988) was a French bridge player and writer from Paris. He and his regular partner Roger Trézel were on the France team that won the inaugural World Team Olympiad in Turin, 1960, and they won the inaugura ...
, world champion
* , world champion
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Philippe Soulet, world champion
*
Roger Trézel, world champion
References
External links
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