Fabienne was born in Uccle, in the Brussels region, on 26 April 1971, to her father Henri Lombaerts and her mother, Claire Chaval. Fabienne lived the beginning of her youth in Evere, a town close to Brussels, with her parents and paternal grandparents who ran a butcher shop and had a large house. Fabienne grew up in a bilingual environment, her father being Flemish and her Walloon mother, which favoured her taste and her gift for language learning. As an adult, in addition to French and Dutch, she will speak fluent Norwegian, the language of her new home, English, German, Italian, with a good knowledge of Spanish. His father, an engineer, was passionate about car mechanics and transmitted the technical virus to his daughter. At the age of 9, her parents separated and she shared her life between Evere where her father stayed and Uccle where her mother settled and where she would join them two years later, Jean-Paul Liégeois who would thus become her stepfather and with whom she would get along very well.
Her studies have always gone well, she was a brilliant and diligent student. She finished high school easily. She was a young girl surrounded by friends who never committed excesses or created difficulties for her parents. She was cheerful, cheerful even if she could from time to time push her mouth to assert her point of view and make herself heard. Family activities, outings with friends and language study were her favourite activities.
After the high school, after having tried translation-interpretation - but it was an activity that isolated too much and with far too little social contact for her, Fabienne joined the ISES (Institut Supérieur Européen de Secrétariat) from which she emerged as a leader of the group. This was also the period when she met Bernard Bingen, her future husband. Immediately after her studies, Fabienne was hired by Sency, a company that built sensors where she was very comfortable even if she was still very young: the combination of organizational rigour, the use of foreign languages and an interest in technology, even if she was in the administrative department, were, and always will be, the main winning characteristics of Fabienne's professional profile. At that time, Fabienne had put herself in a relationship with Bernard, still in the Brussels region. When he got a temporary position in Oslo, Norway, she stayed in Belgium with great sadness and the couple lived at a distance. But Bernard quickly obtained a permanent position at the geological survey in Trondheim, Fabienne did not hesitate and joined Bernard in Scandinavia by taking his cat Peanut which will be his four-legged companion for almost 20 years.
In Norway, Fabienne quickly learned Norwegian and in depth because for her work, it was necessary, babbling was totally insufficient. Her small Flemish accent, with her inimitable pronunciation of the "r's", made her look like a Bergen native but never like a foreigner. Less than a year after her arrival in Norway, she was hired by Norshell in the seafood export department, where her multilingual skills were used, which she loved. She would have liked more rigour in the organization, which will be a leitmotiv throughout her professional career, but she really enjoyed this work. She then worked for DFDS, an international transport company, she will even work for a few months in Oslo for this company, for Q-Free, a company managing road tolls, for Bilfinger, a German company that built an urban road tunnel under the fjord in Trondheim. Fabienne really enjoyed this job where the rigor was total but had to leave it when Bilfinger finished the work and left for another one in Sweden. She then worked for Transinor's subsidiary in Trondheim where Fabienne regained some of her Sency activity with the various measuring instruments created and sold by this company. Finally, she moved to Chiron, a company specializing in sophisticated analysis and standards development, where she was Logistics Manager and Key Account Manager, which summarizes Fabienne's professional career very well. Her language skills, technical understanding and social contacts worked wonders by boosting sales in the countries with which she worked.
Fabienne had integrated perfectly into Norwegian society. When she returned to Belgium or France, she often said that she had become Norwegian and that if she was sad to leave her family, she was happy to find the Norwegian way of life again.
Fabienne was a kind, honest, meticulous, very sociable girl - her number of friends testifies to this, loving the party but reasonably, with a strong character. She left much too early and her departure leaves a lot of sadness, infinite sadness in her parents.
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