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File Size: 5762 KB
Print Length: 409 pages
Publisher: Dutton; Reprint edition (August 8, 2017)
Publication Date: August 8, 2017
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01N8SL7FF
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I thought Tom Sancton's THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR would be another interesting and intimate look at a family embroiled in their own greedy, bitter, long, drawn out dispute over money. While it was that and more, I learned that the Bettencourts, namely the French heiress to the L’Oréal fortune were Anti-Semites, dating back to Liliane Bettencourt’s (the heiress) father who founded the company, the heiress herself and her husband Andre as well. Her daughter and only child, Françoise, who instigates the lawsuit, that becomes known as the Bettencourt Affair, is however married to a Jewish man and they raised their two sons to be Jewish, much to the dismay of her parents. After learning of the history of these men who were Nazi sympathizers and their hatred of the Jews, it was truly hard to enjoy their story as I would have liked.Sancton is a terrific writer and his research lends to an insightful book not only about what prompted Liliane’s daughter to sue her mother’s friend photographer François-Marie Banier, but about the French political and legal systems and this shameful scandal that aired the family’s dirty laundry. Banier was the recipient of massive gifts given to him by way of real estate, major works of art, and more by Liliane and those bequeathed to him in the millions including life insurance policies, upon her death. (She is still living.) In total, nearly a billion dollars. Mais, quand même!What I took away from the book, apart from the sad relationship between the mother and daughter, is learning of the corruption that a family of such great wealth was able to pass along to the French government and the rampant anti-Semitism that went from one generation to the next. In light of this past weekend’s violent display of hatred and bigotry, I was even more saddened.
Better than I expected. This is not a quick cut-and-paste gossip-level book. It is soundly based in the court record and the words of the participants, and (surprisingly, to a US reader) the out-of-court comments of the judges. Yet the author manages to shape the narrative very well and to tell the story in a way that lets it unfold properly. He also describes failry and well, to the extent necessary for the American reader, the utterly French social, political and financial background to the story.He also brings a good measure of moral nuance to the story. He recognizes this is not a case of devils and angels; it is a classic display of ever-present human frailties and questions we may never know the answer to. In some ways, it is a classic faimly fight over inheritance, but with many twists (including the fact that only, at most, 8% of Liliane's huge fortune was "in play"). Liliane comes through very clearly, the other key players -- Banier and the daughter, Francoise -- remain (to me) enigmas.Alors, what do we have here? Money spent on an almost unbelievable scale; a lonely older woman with an attachment to a self-dramatizing artsy gay man 30 years younger than herself; a complaisant husband; an arctic froideur between a mother and only daughter; a driven founder of a business empire who seems to have been a collabo; a set of higher and lower domestic servants who put one in mind both of Downton Abbey and Genet's The Maids; a French President who may or may not have received $200 million in cash from Liliane's fortune; a bevy of French lawyers who remind one uncannily of the ones Daumier caricatured in the 19th century, all of them seeking legal or not-so-legal ways to profit from the split within the Bettencourt family; and some rather unpleasant judges.In short, excellent. Would make a very good play/film (with, presumably, the names changed).
The richest woman in the world, Lilianne Bettencourt, died recently. This book is about the rich and how they really are different from everyone else. Her father's pro-Hitler stance, his antisemitism, and his ability to avoid being legally executed for being a traitor (money helped) helped him to build the fortune that Lilianne inherited. How she spent it and how it affected others is the dominant theme of this book. Political intrigue, private islands, major tax evasion, and people committing suicide to escape the association with all of it. The saying that truth is stranger than fiction applies to the Bettencourt family. I will never look at L'oreal cosmetics the same way ever again.
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