The countess Albina of Boisrouvray was born the July 2nd 1941 with Paris. She is the only daughter of the count Guy of Boisrouvray, first cousin of the prince Rainier III of Monaco and Lùz Mila Patino whose family made fortune in the tin in Bolivia. Old journalist, then producing of cinema it is the president and founder of the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud (AFXB) which bears the name of his/her only son deceased in an accident of helicopter at the time of the Paris-Dakar in 1986.

Biography

After a childhood with New York and a cosmopolitan adolescence, Albina of Boisrouvray is fixed in the canton of the Valais, in Suisse, where it meets and marries Bruno Bagnoud. After the birth of his/her François-Xavier son in 1961, it studies psychology and philosophy at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. Journalist independent, Albina of Boisrouvray writes in particular for Nouvel Observateur. Of 1969 with 1986, it is devoted to the film production through the production company which it created: Albina Productions. In 17 years, its company produced 22 films of which:

• the Ninnies (1972) first film of Pascal Thomas.
• Police force Python (1975) of Alain Corneau.
• important is to like (1975) Andrzej Zulawski.
• Strong Saganne (1984) of Alain Corneau.

In 1985, in France, it is decorated with the Ordre of Arts and the Letters, to the rank of knight and becomes the first cinematographic producer to receive the National order of the Merit.

Since 1980, Albina of Boisrouvray chairs and directs the SEGH which gathers the active family companies in the real estate and hotel trade.

The January 14th 1986, the helicopter which his/her son François-Xavier Bagnoud within the framework of the Dakar Rally flew is taken in a sandstorm to the Mali and is crushed on a dune. On board are also the singer Daniel Balavoine, Thierry Sabine, the creator of the Rally Dakar, Nathaly Odent, a journalist, and Jean-Paul Fur, technician-radio.

After the death of her only son, it sells his cinematographic production company as well as the three quarters of its personal goods and engages with Médecins of the World at the sides of Bernard Kouchner with which it will leave on mission in particular to the Lebanon.

In 1989, it founds the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, a non-governmental organization now known under the name of FXB International whose mission is to fight poverty and the AIDS and to support the vulnerable orphans and children victims of pandemia.

See too

Site of International Association FXB.