We welcome Her Excellency Mme Laurence Beau, the new French Ambassador, as Patron of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust, alongside NZ Patron and renowned writer, Sir Vincent O’Sullivan.  

Mme Beau presented her credentials to the Governor-General at a ceremony at Government House in Wellington on 4 October.  She is accompanied on her posting to New Zealand by her husband, M. Gilles Beau.