Bettencourt’s net worth was $42.5 billion, according to the,“Friendship, taste for life, knowledge, health.

This activity is officially recognized only 40 years later by the Mitterand administration, yet historians are still constantly questioning it.At the end of 1942, André Bettencourt is sent by Eugène Schueller “to aryanize” Nestlé in Switzerland (the boss of L’Oréal became one of Nestlé’s major shareholders). Searches uncover caches of weapons distributed throughout the entire territory. ".In the furore that greeted these revelations, Bettencourt stood down as deputy chairman of L'Oréal, ostensibly on the ground of age, transferring his shares in the business to his wife as he did so; French newspapers speculated that the real reason was the publicity about his past.He admitted authorship of the articles but dismissed them as "errors of youth", claiming that he had been poisoned by Vichy propaganda. All members swear an oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer.Through this powerful, armed organization, Deloncle and Schueller try to eliminate their political adversary Pierre Laval and their ally/rival Marcel Déat. They are soon to be joined by Gabriel Jeantet, François Méténier and Dr Henri Martin.Colonel de La Rocque warns former league members that their movement may be infiltrated by “traitor groups”, that is by fascists acting on behalf of foreign states, such as Italy and Germany [.Eugene Schueller, a close friend of Eugene Deloncle, contributes his personal assets to the plot. Thus the holding company established by Eugene Schueller during the Second World War will be wound up. Meantime, Robert Mitterand moves into rue Dufrenoy, more exactly, into the building that will house the head office of the Opus in France. A previous version of this story corrected stock restriction lift date.Have a confidential tip for our reporters?Stocks Pare Losses as Tech Rally Tempers Bank Rout: Markets Wrap,Trump’s WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns,Microsoft to Buy Bethesda for $7.5 Billion to Boost Xbox,Nikola Confronts Future of Doubts on Chair Exit, Stock Drop,Colleges Become Reservoirs of Covid Ready to Spill Over. Liliane Bettencourt is a French heiress and businesswoman who is the principal shareholder in the cosmetics company, L’Oréal and is reputed to be the wealthiest woman in history.. Liliane Bettencourt married André Bettencourt who is a French politician. His book.On 15 June 1941, in an address to the Congress of the Organization at Paris’s Palais de la Mutualité, Schueller calls for “preliminary revolution for cleansing and remedy” which must “necessarily be bloody”. At once, a group of fascist militants, most of whom came from section XVII of the “Camelots du Roi”, break with Charles Maurras, a monarchist philosopher and decide to go underground. I would say that these are the things that are the most valuable,” Bettencourt said in a rare interview with French literary magazine L’Egoiste in 1988.

In 1988 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.André Bettencourt is survived by his wife and daughter.André Bettencourt [with his wife Liliane]: a politician whose wartime record came back to haunt him,North Korea prepares for military parade despite pandemic fears,Real estate tycoon and critic of China's President Xi Jinping jailed for 18 years,Pensions doctor: 'I've been made redundant at 50 – can I put my payout into my pension? André Bettencourt, who died on November 19 aged 88, served as a cabinet minister in French governments of the 1960s and 1970s and won medals for bravery for his service in the Resistance; in the 1990s, however, it emerged that his wartime record was not all it seemed.In his youth Bettencourt had been a member of La Cagoule, a violent Fascist group bankrolled by Eugène Schueller, founder of the cosmetics giant L'Oréal.Even before the German invasion members of the group, which was committed to the overthrow of France's elected government and was violently anti-Semitic, were involved in criminal activities ranging from gun-running to the firebombing of synagogues.

On 18 March 1942, Eugène Schueller rushes to the Reich’s embassy and confirms that he has turned his back on his friend. After the German invasion, they swore allegiance to Hitler, sent men to support the German forces fighting in Russia and collaborated in the persecution of French Jews.After the war L'Oréal is alleged to have provided a hiding place for former members of the group anxious to rewrite their pasts, becoming, as the Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld put it, "a factory designed to recycle the extreme Right" into post-war respectability.Bettencourt went on to marry Schueller's daughter and heir, Liliane, and rose to become deputy chairman of L'Oréal and one of the richest men in France.