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Ranking in France Name Age Net worth Sources of wealth 1 Bernard Arnault & family 74 211 billion LVMH: 2 Françoise Bettencourt Meyers: 70 80.5 billion L'Oréal: 3 François Pinault: 86 40.1 billion Kering: 4 Alain Wertheimer: 74 31.6 billion Chanel: 4 Gérard Wertheimer: 72 31.6 billion Chanel: 6 Emmanuel Besnier: 53 27.6 billion Lactalis: 7 ...
François Bayrou, UDF party leader. Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister. José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist. Aristide Briand. Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president. Georges Clemenceau.
Le Plus Grand Français de tous les temps ("The Greatest Frenchman of all Time") was a France 2 show of early 2005, based on an original series of Great Britons on the BBC. The show asked the French viewers whom they thought was the Greatest Frenchman or Frenchwoman. It was presented by Michel Drucker and Thierry Ardisson, and the final episode ...
10 Alain Wertheimer: 31.2 billion 73 France: Chanel: 10 Gerard Wertheimer: 31.2 billion 71 France: Chanel: 12 Dietrich Mateschitz: 27.4 billion 77 Austria: Red Bull: 13 Leonardo Del Vecchio: 27.3 billion 86 Italy: Luxottica: 14 Susanne Klatten: 24.3 billion 59 Germany: BMW, Altana: 15 Emmanuel Besnier: 23.5 billion 51 France: Lactalis: 16 ...
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), author of Atala and René. Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846) Charles Nodier (1780–1844) Stendhal (1783–1842), author of The Red and the Black, considered by some to be the first modern novel, and The Charterhouse of Parma. Élise Voïart, (1786–1866), writer and translator.
Roulette was developed in 18th century France [8] from a primitive form created by Blaise Pascal (17th century). [9] In 1843, Louis and François Blanc introduced the single 0 style roulette wheel. Many other gambling games and card games (including the French suits around 1480) [10] were invented in France, some from earlier games :
Germaine Haye. Germaine Haye (née Germain; 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002) was France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years and 190 days. [ 162] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living person in Europe and fourth oldest in ...
Time in office. Political party. Charles de Gaulle. (1890–1970) 18 June 1940. 3 June 1944. 3 years, 351 days. 1940. Following the fall of France, he issued the Appeal of 18 June to continue resisting the Nazi occupation of France.