All started at the sea coconut, on a beautiful day in July 2004. This day, Jean-Claude Detilleux and Jean-Louis Bancel occur in this restaurant in boulevard Saint Marcel, in the Paris 5eà. The atmosphere is exotic: cuisine Seychelles in the dishes and fine sand on the ground. The two men know each other well. The first is President of the credit cooperative, the second, Director General of the National Federation of the Mutualité Française (FNMF), in the shadow of the high-power Jean-Pierre Davant. More for a long time. Because it is for him to become his right arm, Jean-Claude Detilleux invited his friend to lunch. What it ignores is that Jean-Louis Bancel, two days earlier, has just announced before that it does not rempilerait at his side for a third term. "Great minds meet!he exclaims. The case is sealed between the crab soup and singed pineapple. Five years and a few beautiful building later - renovation of governance, implementation of the plan, "Cape 2008" design of the enterprise project "coopéraction 2015"-, Jean-Claude Detilleux, at the age of sixty-eight, ceded the Presidency to its Director General. Fifty-four years, this enarque of promoting Henri - François d'Aguesseau, also passed by Ginette and HEC is already an old road of the social economy, in which it operates for more than fifteen years. It is indeed the end of 1992 he abandoned his position as head of Office to Treasury to become the Secretary General of the Gema, the Professional Union of insurance companies.
"I do useful work."

A shift that there might never have taken if major figures of the sector, starting with the former President of the Maif Jean Germain, had not come to pick him up, ten years after had identified it to debut at the Direction of insurance, where he was their interlocutor on July 5, 1985 Badinter Act special victims compensation plan of road. Although from - or perhaps instead because ' from - a true dynasty of officers of taxes, the young enarque had preferred to join this direction that the DGI. In any event, neither insurance nor the taxman did dream. Teenager, this great player of historical journals and testing for the Dumézil had fondled her hopes to become a psychiatrist, before realize the need first to go through medicine. A failure to take the white blouse, he has married one. In arriving at the Gema, Jean-Louis Bancel knew that he had found his path. "I have the satisfaction to look me every morning in the ice by me saying that I am doing useful work," said one who is above all, professionally speaking, the pleasure to feel in line with its values. A feeling that he had already encountered when he had worked on the report Brac Ferrière on the ethics of financial activities, or, a few years later, as Director of Office of Véronique Neiertz to the Secretariat of State for consumption. And that it will be from early 1998 to the FNMF, where Jean-Pierre Davant, after berating by Lionel Jospin due to the delay in the transposition of European directives, call it at his side to carry out this site and the revision of the Code of mutuality. Until some lunch at the Coco de Mer.