

‘Work has to be lived and life has to be worked at’

I cannot be happy if my children are not.” Christine served as the Director of the Office of Public Information of the Baha’i International Community in Paris.

But we did it together,” says the co-founder of L’Opera. We overcame innumerable challenges – the challenge of learning the language, finding manpower, creating a product line and setting up a store. “It was over one conference call we decided to set up L’Opera here. Christine lent unconditional support to her son, Laurent, who was on an internship in India, when expressed his wish to open L’Opera, a chain of French Boulangerie-Pâtisserie and Salon de Thé (tea room), as he missed French flavours in New Delhi. But it was the love for her son and to see his dreams turn into reality that saw Christine migrate from France and make India her home. It is never easy to settle in a new country, where the culture and language is completely different.
