On November 5, 2007, Stéphane Martin, Président du Musée du Quai Branly, gave a talk entitled "The Quai Branly Museum : a new building in Paris by Jean Nouvel" The talk was co-sponsored by the Alliance Française de Tucson, the UA department of French and Italian, the UA College of Humanities, and the UA College of Architecture. The presentation was in English and was free & open to the public.

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, the Quai Branly Museum is the only museum to have been built in Paris for 25 years. S. Martin is a judge in France's Cour des comptes which supervises the way public money is spent. He started at the Court in 1982 after studies at Paris's Institute of Political Studies and ENA (National School for Administration). He has also worked as General Delegate of the Georges Pompidou Center, as Assistant director of music at Radio France, in several posts at the Ministry of Culture, and as director of the Grimaldi Forum, a cultural complex in Monaco. He is Board president of the Ensemble Inter Contemporain which fosters contemporary classical music.

Lise Leibacher