Avantages Avantages Avantages is a French-language monthly women's magazine published in Paris, France. It is one of the most read women's magazines in the country and is the French edition of the British magazine "Essentials". "Avantages" was established in 1988. The owner of the magazine is Marie Claire Group and its publisher is Avantages SA. The magazine has its headquarters in Paris and is published on a monthly basis. Its target audience includes working-class women. Isabelle Bourgeois is the editor-in-chief of "Avantages". She was appointed to the post in March 2007. The website of "Avantages" was launched in 2009. The website
Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais, (born 5 October 1939) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. Blais was born to a blue collar family in Quebec City. She studied at a convent school, but had to interrupt her education to seek employment. At the age of seventeen, she enrolled in a few classes at Université Laval, where she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, who encouraged her to write. She published her first novel "La Belle Bête" (translated as "Mad Shadows") in 1959, when she turned 20. She has since written more than