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
Claire Vellut Claire Vellut Claire Marie Jeanne Vellut (1926–2013) was a Belgian born naturalised Indian leprologist, humanist and the founder of the Damien Foundation India Trust, a non profit non governmental organization engaged in providing treatment and rehabilitation services to people afflicted with leprosy and tuberculosis in India. She spent 55 years in India treating leprosy and tuberculosis patients, associating with the state and central governments or independently under the aegis of the trust she founded in 1955. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1981. Claire Marie was born on 29 October