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Preserving and highlighting
the heritage of companies
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Our story

Our story
brought to light

As today's world profoundly disrupts our bearings, we are deeply convinced that knowing history makes us freer, reveals meaning, and inspires action. Understanding its foundations allows us to build solid structures and meaningful narratives that create connections and unite people around a shared vision.

As an economic player, a company is also a social and cultural actor whose roots are steeped in a history of men and women, trades, expertise, and territories. Convinced that a company's history is a powerful and valuable asset, we are driven by a mission: to share it. A source of meaning and emotion for employees, but also for customers and all those who interact with the company. We humbly but resolutely present ourselves to the company as passers-by, because far from creating its history, we are here to reveal it.

Passing on meaning and emotion: that is our mission.

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Our talents & values

Our talents & values Perles d’Histoire's team is a subtle blend of scientific, cultural, and business-oriented profiles. This complementary mix is a valuable source of expertise and interpersonal skills that help our clients design heritage projects that are scientifically rigorous, creative, relevant, and impactful.
Perles d'Histoire also draws on a network of trusted experts and partners depending on the specific nature of the projects entrusted to us.

Furthermore, in order to respond to a strong desire for constant improvement and high standards in our work, we have set up a Perles d'Histoire scientific council to support us in our methodological and ethical considerations. Three individuals with complementary profiles and recognized in their disciplines have kindly agreed to be members.
Perles d'Histoire is also a member of the AAF (Association des archivistes français) and the International Council on Archives.

To guide our teams in their daily mission as “Passers of meaning & emotion”, we have chosen four strong values that characterize who we are and who we want to be. Linked and combined, they form a shared reference point that ensures the consistency of our individual and collective decisions, both internally and externally.

EXCELLENCE
Both individual and collective, excellence must be the hallmark of Perles d'Histoire and its teams, while striving to satisfy our customers and partners. Individual excellence is reflected in the demand for meticulous, consistent, rigorous, and responsible work, down to the smallest detail; while collective excellence requires us to always promote the power of collective intelligence in an attitude of trust, listening, and subsidiarity.

INVENTIVITY
As each project confronts us with specific contexts and new challenges, we are committed to never settling for the easy option or repetition, but to demonstrating creativity, agility, and pragmatism in order to best adapt to our clients' challenges and constraints and raise our mission to the highest level of achievement and satisfaction.

WONDER
An ever-renewing faculty, wonder is curiosity, openness, and the ability to let ourselves be surprised and moved by the stories, each one different, that we immerse ourselves in with every project. Seeking to evoke this emotion in our clients inspires our creativity and the quality of the narration and writing in our projects.

SHARING
Sharing is at the heart of our mission to pass on knowledge, both through our work as archivists and historians, who collect memories and make them accessible, and through cultural mediation, the ultimate channel for sharing valued history. By encouraging exchange and collaboration, sharing is also the basis of collective intelligence, which is essential to our mission.

Scientific Council

Scientific Council

Supporting the agency in its methodological and ethical considerations
Three members, with complementary profiles and recognized in their disciplines, enrich us with their expert advice:
> Catherine CUENCA, General Curator of Heritage, Head of Networks and Research and the Patstec national mission, PICST Cnam Paris and University of Nantes
> Pascal GRISET, Professor of Contemporary History at Sorbonne University
> Roger NOUGARET, Paleographer and Archivist, former Head of Archives and History at BNP-Paribas

We warmly thank them for agreeing to walk alongside us to fulfill our mission as guides to the best of our ability.

The Perles d'Histoire team
Pauline le Clere

Pauline le Clere

President – Founder, Director of Cultural Engineering
Thinking, connecting subjects, getting inspired, inspiring, creating…A cheerful frontrunner, Pauline has not yet put her pink glasses on when she creates Perles d’Histoire in 2008 to share her belief that history is a constant source of inspiration and connection. Pauline graduated from the University Paris-Dauphine with a Master’s degree in Marketing, and from the EM Lyon business school, with a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship.

Is there any greater balance for a man, other than knowing where he comes from, and the story of his ancestors?

Hélie de Saint Marc, Une vie.
Arnaud le Clere

Arnaud le Clere

General Manager - CEO
After graduating from the ESSEC business school, Arnaud answered the call of the sea and served in the French navy for a year. He then caught a plane to the aeronautical industry as a pilot for 13 years. Fascinated by Notre-Dame de Paris and avidly interested in history and Perles d’Histoire, Arnaud took the plunge in 2019 and joined the team, driven by the necessity to love and spread history.

The need for roots is maybe the most essential yet the most unknown need to the human soul.

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, 1943 (trad. 1952)
Charlotte Lacombe

Charlotte Lacombe

Director of Strategy
To wonder, to learn, to innovate again and again… In short, philosophy is what drives Charlotte every day, especially when it comes to culture. She has always been visiting museums and art exhibitions, running to a show and devouring books, comics and gastro food, here or abroad! After a Master’s degree in Philosophy and History of Art at La Sorbonne University, she studied Management of Culture in Sciences-Po school in Paris. Her professional experience at the Louvre Museum and Havas group gave her the strong wish to act in favor to the transmission and the development of our creative heritage.

The future is a present of the past.

André Malraux
Annonciade Petit-Bady

Annonciade Petit-Bady

Head of Development
Passionate about history, thanks to her education in French heritage and her studies, Marie-Annonciade loves to reveal the gems in every person she meets. With 20 years of experience in communications at an international banking group, as well as at an association and an international French-language media, she has made maieutics her daily practice.
In charge of development for Perles d'Histoire, she particularly enjoys the art of thinking outside the box, clarifying objectives, and working to preserve collective memory.

The happiest man is the one who can connect the end of his life with its beginning.

Goethe
Andrea Mounecif

Andrea Mounecif

Head of History & Archives
It was in an old memory box found in his grandparents' house that Radouan discovered his vocation for history and archives. Curious, inventive, and open to the world, he then embarked on a journey that took him far from his native Venice, to the University of Padua, Paris VIII University, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, and Sorbonne University, where he defended his doctoral thesis. A tireless traveler and passionate researcher, he has been contributing for years to preserving, promoting, and transmitting the history of companies and organizations, combining scientific rigor, a spirit of innovation, and a taste for new technologies.

Writing is always hiding something so that it can be discovered later.

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Alice Foucher

Alice Foucher

Cultural Project Manager
From historically emblematic sites of Paris that reflect its rich history, to contemporary art galleries in the Marais, Alice likes giving tours to awaken people’s curiosity. She also loves to plunge into the ambiance of 1920s cabarets in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, practising different styles, such as the Charleston and the Swing. After obtaining a Master’s in Contemporary History and a degree in History of Art at the Sorbonne University, Alice acquired a degree in Research and Museology from the École du Louvre.

He explained to me with a smile, that nothing is black or white, and that white is often hidden black, and that black is white that has been caught.

Romain Gary, The Life Before Us
Gabrielle Dezasars

Gabrielle Dezasars

Cultural Project Manager
Immersed in painting from a young age, Gabrielle deepened her fascination with art and heritage at the École du Louvre, then at the Hautes Études for her specialized Master's degree in the History of Ancient Drawing. Her calm meticulousness and sense of appreciation have confidently opened a wide variety of doors for her, from haute couture houses to monasteries, fortresses, and the illuminated galleries of the Quai Voltaire. Gabrielle now devotes herself to highlighting the history of companies in order to reveal their meaning and beauty, and to make this the foundation of their future.

History is like the sun, a torch lit for everyone.

Benjamin Constant, A mixture of literature and politics
Adélaïde Savy

Adélaïde Savy

Project Manager, Archivist
Dreaming of travel and adventure, Adélaïde finds a way to set sail in history. Enthusiastic and passionate, she loves to explore and share what she discovers. When she's not immersed in archives, she enjoys theater, tennis, and hiking in vast landscapes. A graduate of the École nationale des Chartes, she joined the private sector and integrated the archives department of Perles d'Histoire.

But...to sing, to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free, with a voice that stirs, and an eye that still can see! To cock your hat on one side, when you please at a yes, a no, to fight, or – make poetry!

Edmond Rostand
Aurélien Nicole

Aurélien Nicole

Museography Project Manager
With a degree in History and Heritage Management, Aurélien completed his studies at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2018. Through his various experiences, he has worked with some of France's largest museums, particularly those under the Ministry of the Armed Forces, as well as associations closely involved with local heritage. Returning to his native region, he settled in Arras for a time, working as a museographer, teacher, lecturer, and web editor. Passionate and versatile, he brings his love of scientific and technical heritage to Perles d'Histoire, with the aim of promoting and passing it on as a universal heritage.

May we ensure that all children in France one day understand that these stones, which are still alive, belong to them on condition that they love them.

André Malraux, December 15, 1961
Éléonore Lacaille

Éléonore Lacaille

Cultural Project Manager
Passionate about art and history, Éléonore holds a Master's degree in museology from the École du Louvre. From her years as head of exhibitions at the Jacquemart-André Museum, she has retained a taste for sharing knowledge and visits museums and historical sites to cultivate her sense of wonder...and that of others! She explores culture in all its forms: she loves reading books as much as she loves publishing them, and thrives in a colorful choir. Éléonore didn't hesitate to take a different path by co-creating TaKo Kids magazine to spark children's curiosity, before joining Perles d'Histoire to highlight corporate heritage with rigor and creativity.

You can't exhaust creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Maya Angelou
Lisa Lafontaine

Lisa Lafontaine

Archives Project Manager
When she's not walking along a mountain trail, Lisa is busy collecting all kinds of antique objects. And when she's not searching for light for her film photography, she's in the shadow of the archives. Graduate of the École nationale des chartes and the Institut national du patrimoine, specializing in scientific, technical, and natural heritage, she joined the Perles d'Histoire team to reveal the gems of corporate history.

The world is full of voices that have lost their faces And wander night and day in search of one.

Jules Supervielle
Louis-Fiacre d'Espèrey

Louis-Fiacre d'Espèrey

Digital Project Manager
Whether spending months traveling across Europe by foot or holing up in a bubble to program code late into restless nights, reading the rest of the time, Louis-Fiacre is a curious specimen at the crossroads of computer science and literature. After obtaining a double degree in Modern Literature and History, he trained in contemporary technological issues with a master's degree in Digital Humanities from the École nationale des chartes, which he obtained in the spring of 2024. A Linux fanatic, the world of open source is an endless source of wonder for him.

Love, and do what you will

Augustine of Hippo
Lola Boccassini

Lola Boccassini

Archives Project Manager
When she's not strolling along the seashore, book in hand, lulled by the sound of the waves and the bright sunshine of her native south, where she grew up surrounded by the aromas of her family's biscuit factory, you'll find Lola lacing up her sneakers for long, frantic runs. Curious and eager to discover new things, she explores theaters, museums, and exhibitions, soaking up every experience. With a master's degree in Archives from Jean Moulin Lyon III University, Lola is now part of the Perles d'Histoire team. Meticulous and enthusiastic, she passionately immerses herself in the search for historical treasures to promote the heritage of companies. Her goal: to bring these hidden gems back to life and make their history shine.

Every fragment of our past, every moment we have lived, contributes to weaving the narrative of our existence. History, then, becomes not only a collection of facts, but an exploration of human souls.

Luigi Pirandello
Cécile Perchet

Cécile Perchet

Office manager
After her postgraduate studies in History of Art and Contemporary Art, Cécile lived her passion for art by managing top art galleries, and browsing through antiques and flea markets. Cécile is our Zen master!

Combining my passion for contemporary art with the everyday corporate life and be sure to hand over a cultural wealth.

Laurentine Simonet

Laurentine Simonet

Communication Manager
Born in Provence and expatriated to Anjou as a child, Laurentine grew up between these two regions, linked by history and dear to her heart. After studying management and completing a master's degree in digital marketing in Marseille, she settled in Paris, where she cultivated her taste for history, art, and beauty by visiting museums, enjoying the opera, and escaping to the theater. With a love of adventure, she can also be found backpacking on weekends, crisscrossing France's long-distance hiking trails. Curious about everything, her first professional experience took her into the world of sailing, where she learned the ins and outs of communication and developed the strategy for a startup specializing in crew placement. Communicating, creating connections, and sharing knowledge are what drive her every day.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery

Louis Pasteur
Our partners

Our partners

A subtle alchemy
We are committed to providing our clients with tailor-made, integrated services covering the entire value chain of their heritage. Depending on our clients' needs and specific requirements, our talented team regularly collaborates with experts from our network of partners who share our scientific rigor and creative standards: scenographers, directors, artistic directors, authors, motion and sound designers, developers, architects, third-party archivists, digitization laboratories, and more.

Collective intelligence is the art of maximizing simultaneously creative freedom and collaborative efficiency.

Pierre Lévy

21st October 2018: Creating Perles d’Histoire

Convinced that our identities are shaped by the events, commitments, places and people within our family history, Pauline le Clere founds Perles d’Histoire for families to share their history amongst themselves.
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Serving businesses

Transitioning from family to corporate histories, Perles d’Histoire takes a step forward by signing its first corporate client, Lagardère Ressources.
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Réseau Entreprendre laureate

“To create jobs, let us create employers”. Based on this idea, Réseau Entreprendre aims to ensure the success of entrepreneurs by passing on to them the knowledge and experience of active leaders in the business world.
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Situational analysis
of historical heritage

Perles d’Histoire develops and implements a new approach to assist companies in identifying and structuring their sources of heritage.
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Historical and
cultural engineering

Organising the activity into two sections, Preserving and Highlighting Perles d’Histoire now stands on its two feet, and continues to grow.
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The Heritage patent
of Perles d’Histoire

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Perles d’Histoire develops a new tool designed to identify and extract the gems of corporate client heritage.
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11th year:
a year of innovation

With a new visual identity, a new website, and a new CEO, the strengthened team is all the same fuelled by passion!
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A historic year

Historic year In the midst of the crisis, Perles d'Histoire conceived and carried out the civic project “Memories of Businesses in the Time of COVID-19” to create the history of tomorrow by collecting oral records from more than 40 French business leaders.
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A Scientific Advisory Board

Creation of a scientific advisory board, comprising four renowned figures in their respective fields, to support us in our methodological and ethical considerations.
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A relocation for the 15th anniversary

The team expanded and moved to new offices at 40 rue de Paris in Boulogne-Billancourt.
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