Maître Marceau de Constantin

     The Maître Marceau Constantin is a great appreciator and supporter of Helena`s Art. President of the Académie Internationale de Lutèce (A.I.L.), he invited the portuguese to belong to this Institution in the year of 1973, having Helena gotten a gold medal in the first contest in which she participed.

      After Helena would still strongly rewarded in the A.I.L. but she got firstly from this Academy a great divulgation of her that would take her to a lot of different events in Paris, France, or even other more distant places like Japan.

       Marceau Constantin is a figure that personifies the Académie de Lutèce. Beyond be a painting expert and a virtuous artist, he is also a man with a remarkable power of action and initiative, doing everything with an artistical way and a profound generosity.

    By all these attributes, this man of Saint-Christol enjoys a strong prestige in that artistical capital that is Paris.

         Marceau Constantin and A.I.L. were during lot of years for Helena, Paris ambassadors that brought to the painter the cultural enchant of that place.

Here Monsieur Marceau Constantin is doing the opening speech in the exhibition that the painter Helena had done in Paris in October of 1996.