Named after Louis de Froment (1921–1994), French conductor.
Born in Toulouse, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning a first prize for conducting in 1948, and led the casino orchestras of Cannes, Deauville and Vichy. From 1958 to 1980 he was permanent conductor of the Radio-Télé-Luxembourg symphony orchestra, forerunner of today’s Luxembourg Philharmonic, between Carl Melles and Leopold Hager.