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Why is it that one’s ignorance expands so dramatically the more one tries to fill the void - that lack of knowledge?  Why is it that I am just discovering the FEPE, Federation European Publicite Exterieur and its founder Jacques Dauphin.

Jacques Dauphin (July 4, 1923 - April 1, 1994) was a French advertising pioneer founder and CEO of Dauphin OTA. He is best known as the inventor of painted walls and billboards as new advertising mediums.

In 1999 Dauphin OTA was sold to the American company Clear Channel and became an emblematic part of its outdoor communication division

After graduating with a law degree from Faculte de droit de Paris and from HEC Paris, Jacques Dauphin re-opened the Parisian-based office created by his father Eugene Dauphin in 1921 who closed it during WWII to prevent any collaboration with the Nazis. He then developed the company to a broader scale after the French Liberation expanding its activities to other European countries including the UK, Belgium, Italy or Spain

His professional achievements have been honoured in several occasions and he has successively occupied the following positions: president (1958 - 1966) of the national outdoor advertising federations of France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Italy and the Netherlands best known as FEPE that he created and the International Advertising Association. He was then vice-president (1969), president (1972 - 1974), and honorary president of the French Chambers of advertising. He presided the 3rd World Congress of Outdoor Advertising in London in 1972. He was a member of the International Commission « Publicité distribution » of the International Chamber of Commerce, and co-president of Grand prix international de l´affichage. He has been made Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres by the French authorities

Through Dauphin OTA Jacques Dauphin was also particularly active in the promotion of the arts and image. He notably promoted the Cannes Film Festival and the French International Contemporary Art Fair best known as FIAC.

In respect of my further research, there is the European Sign Expo taking place in Munich from the 20^th to 23^rd May 2014 and the 55^th FEPE Conference to be held in Vienna in 2014.

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