The Friends of the EFEO, a California non-profit public benefit corporation, is launched in San Francisco on October 19, on the occasion of the performance by the Bordeaux String Quartet of the Quatuor Garonne and Partitas Romanes by Odile Perceau, in the presence of the composer, the consul general of France in San Francisco, Romain Serman, and the director of the EFEO, Franciscus Verellen.