04441cam a2200793 4500 592390168 TxAuBib 20220527120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101984482 1101984481 B01N8SL7FF Amazon B01N8SL7FF Amazon B01N8SL7FF Amazon fb0c3e2a-7c04-41fc-9d0b-d7310c4b088d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3033945 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sancton, Tom. The Bettencourt Affair [Libby] : The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. Biography. business history. royalty. Historical. Business. money. strategy. autobiographies. European History. Economy. World History. Autobiography. spy. french. Corporations. biographies. History. affair. spies. Economics. biographies and memoirs. business books. history books. historical books. gifts for history buffs. bettencourt. bettencourt affair. economics books. biographies of famous people. world history books. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. house warming presents. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4624kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 4482kB. Biography & Autobiography. Business. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>An NPR Best Book of 2017</b><br /> <br /> <b>Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world.</b><br /> <br /> The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim.<br /> <br /> It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell...<br /> <br /> <i>The Bettencourt Affair</i> is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-26 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fb0c3e2a-7c04-41fc-9d0b-d7310c4b088d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fb0c3e2a-7c04-41fc-9d0b-d7310c4b088d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fb0c3e2a-7c04-41fc-9d0b-d7310c4b088d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXPOT