Our Story
We display the subversive passion for a freedom to be taken, not waited for. As our founder Patrick Edel says, “A new breath can only emerge from a mystique of action”.
Creation
Autour by Patrick Edel and Joel Provansal, a small group passionate young people create La Guilde européenne du raid. First President, Christian libes-Mermoz, cousin of the Archangel, embarked on the adventure the father of Aéropostale Didier Daurat.
PUBLIC LAUNCH WITH PAUL-ÉMILE VICTOR
Au 1er adventure forum, Jena room, the polar explorer accepted a honorary presidency qu'he will keep all its life.
ADVENTURE SCHOLARSHIPS
They do what others dream of, they are the first scholarship holders of La Guilde supported by Lucien Pfeiffer : Maurice and Katia Krafft, Philippe de Dieuleveult, Xavier Desalbres, Jean-Francois Mongibeaus, Jean Marc lasted, Evelyne Coquet…
FIRST MOTORBIKE RAIDS
The Raid Orion, ancestor of the great rally-raids, projects a hundred of pilots over 7000 km dthe Champs-Élysées to Isfahan and Kabul. An initiative with Moto-Revue, reissued in 1973 in the Algerian Sahara.
CONGRESS PALACE
Inaugurating the most beautiful venue in Paris, the Forum de l'aventure present in front of 4000 people on Damien with whom Gérard Janichon et Jerome Poncet, sailing stars, just completed 5 years auworld Tour.
FILM, WRITE
The Guild spear to the Plagne the first international festival of lived adventure, which distinguishes especially a sailor who will go far, Patrice Franceschi. To the Books Jury, mountaineer Roger Frison-Roche surrounds himself with Jean feathers Larteguy, Paul Guimard, Yves Courriere, Jean RaspailChristian Dedet. The greats are there: Hugo Pratt, Olivier de Kersauson, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Peter Bird, Eric Valleys, Jean-Claude Barreau, Jean-Francois Deniau. Will be born soon the Adventure in the XNUMXth Century – La Guilde collection, at Albin Michel.
THE HUMAN ADVENTURE FEATURED
A first decade of actions The Guild open the doors of the television : twhile our “permanent volunteer” Philippe de Dieuleveult play the star daredevils for the Treasure hunt on Antenna 2, the A program the adventure magazine with Marc Menant and Jean-Claude Guilbert.
IN AFGHANISTAN
First Caravan of Hope : a ton of medicine and clothes conveyed under the shrapnel Russian by Alan boinet and Patrice Franceschi to le Paktiya. Screw joined by so many other volunteers, over missions often perilous humanitarian projects.
RECOGNITION OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Deploying its first volunteers in Lebanon, Uganda and Afghanistan, The Guild sees its action in the general interest recognized as being of public utility.
SOLIDARITY MICROPROJECTS
Our Agen Forum creates a collective momentum within a new generation of NGOs, soon consheld in Humanitarian coordination and development, the CHD which, For more than fifty associations, turns 40 in 2023. the creation D'sNorth-South Solidarity promotions foreshadows the innovative approach du development through microproject.
The broken ear
Legacy of Hergé, a member of our honorary committee recently deceased, this exclusive cover of the adventure guide on sale for 15 francs.
ON THE AIR AND AT THE POLE
To live live the most beautiful initiatives and the discovery of the world, La Guilde opens the antenna of Aventure FM in Paris, in cooperation with the Scouts de France, Bayard Presse and The army. That year, Hubert de Chevigny, our future president, lands the first ULM in North Pole by minus forty.
IN LIBAN
Our pearly volunteers au Levant embody French solidarity, soon supported by programs supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and the Raoul Follereau Foundation.
SCREENS IN DIJON
Fsummer of audacious projects and inspiring achievements to turn dreams into actions, Adventure Screens celebrated theirs thirty years. At the crossroads, all the distant will be happy by word, image, sound and drawing.
VIETNAM
Having just sealed Vietnam's return to the international community, La Guilde is sending two young people to support the opening of the country's first bilingual college, Colette College in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2023, some 100 volunteers will work in the French-speaking world, particularly in the Alliances Françaises. The Guild is accredited by the International Organization of the Francophonie.
CAMBODIA
Long after a tour of Asia family and pioneer and a first mission in Cambodia, Christian – then president of La Guilde – and Marie-France des Pallières creent 'For a child's smile', today the first NGO to help children in South-East Asia.
MICROCREDIT
Alongside by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, of the International Organization of La Francophonie, we welcome to the Forum the Microcredit Mohamed Yunus and Jacques Attali.
Adventure Cafes
Sylvain Tesson and Édouard Cortès launch the Cafés de l'aventure in partnership with the Society of French Explorers.
INTERNATIONAL CITIZENSHIP
The Guild embarks on the Service adventure cnascent culture, consistent with its central value of voluntary commitment. It is a pioneering organization in its international deployment, with some 210 departures in 2022!
PEACE RADIO
Initiated by Dr. Frédéric Tissot and Hugues Dewavrin, vice-president of La Guilde, with the support of L'Œuvre d'Orient, the project of a radio broadcasting freely from Iraqi Kurdistan takes shape. Sylvain Tesson opens the antenna on a message from Jean d'Ormesson.
A VOLUNTEERING LABEL
On the steering committee of France Volontaires, in partnership with the Civic Service Agency, approved by the Fondation des Alliances françaises, La Guilde proudly rises to the forefront French international volunteer organizations.
SPORTS INNOVATION
Commitment and dedicated expertise on sports projects at the service of social innovation, at the initiative of AFD and other international partners such as FIFA, Paris 2024 and GIZ.
HERITAGE
In connection with the Alliance International for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Zones (ALIPH), La Guilde pilots rehabilitation projects ine heritage sites of high cultural value in Syria and Iraq. Soon no doubt in Lebanon and Senegal.
CLOSER
Our actions seek the perfect alignment with field. Opening of representations in Dakar, Erbil and Bogota and a coordination office in Beirut, from which are monitored 16 projects for the benefit of 10.000 people, with AFD and the Fondation de France.
THE CONQUERORS
Sébastien Roubinet, navigator of the highest polar seas, and Jean-Baptiste Loiselet, the engineer who completed a tour of France in a solar glider, both 'projet-pilot' of La Guilde, cross in Dijon lhe great explorer Jean-Louis Etienne with consist of project of platform oceanographic Polar POD et Nicolas Vincent, the Frenchman who found Sha's Staminaccleton by 3000 m depth in the Weddell Sea.
MEALS FOR THE LEBANESE
The Guild oversees setting implemented byune platform food assistance (MEAE) the benefit of 17.000 Lebanese affected by the multidimensional crisis and in a situation of nutritional precariousness, by coordinating nine field associations.
