Société 
              Générale’s French team  
            Thomas Bessis, 19 years old, studying math. 
              Olivier Bessis, 21 years old, studying math. 
              The Bessis family realised last year, a great thing : every member 
              of the family was in a French team : dad in the Open team, mum in 
              the Women, and both boys in the Société Générale 
              Youth French Team. They play a lot of sport, especially Tennis and 
              Football (soccer). 
            Julien Gaviard, 22 years old, studying Chemistry. 
              He is the son of Danièle Allouche-Gaviard, three times European 
              champion. 
              There isn’t only bridge in his life : Table Tennis, Football 
              and Bowling are his others activities. This Parisian guy is supporting 
              the Olympic of Marseille 
            Jérôme Grenthe, 22 years old, studying 
              trade. 
              Guillaume Grenthe, 23 years old, has just finished 
              at trading school. 
              They live in the north of the France, in Lille. They are well-suited 
              to each other, it is in the family : their father Patrick has been 
              in the 100 best French players for 30 years now and their mother 
              Dominique plays at the top of the French bridge world. 
            Godefroy de Tessières, 22 years old, has 
              just finished an engineering school. 
              In the de Tessières family, everybody plays bridge, both 
              of the parents and the four children. Godefroy started at the age 
              of eight. At ten, he was seen, with his family, in the World Bridge 
              Championships in Geneva. He grew up in Fort de France (Martinique) 
              where lives the family. He enjoys nautical sports. 
            NPC : Jean-Christophe Quantin, 37, European champion. 
              Coach : François Colin.  |