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TOP 10 - French Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Bernard Arnault	$41 billion	LVMH	Paris	62yo - Married, 5 children
2. Liliane Bettencourt	$23.5 billion	L'Oreal	Paris	88yo - Widowed, 1 child
3. Francois Pinault & familly	$11.5 billion	retail (incl. Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Puma)	Paris	74yo - Married, 3 children
4. Serge Dassault & family	$9.3 billion	aviation	Paris	85yo - Married, 4 children
5. Jean-Claude Decaux & family	$6.0 billion	advertising	Paris	73yo - Married, 3 children
5. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer	$6.0 billion	inherited (Chanel) (apparel, perfume)	USA, New York; Switzerland, Cologny	n/a - Married / Married
7. Alain Merieux & family	$4.3 billion	biotech	Lyon	73yo - Married, 3 children
*8. Xavier Niel*	$3.7 billion	internet, telecom	Paris	43yo - Single, 2 children
9. Martin & Olivier Bouygues	$3.6 billion	telecom, media, construction	Paris	58/60yo -n/a
10. Pierre Bellon & family	$2.9 billion	inherited (food services)	Paris	81yo - Married, 4 children

Did you know...?

Bernard Arnault
up $13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled pianist ... world's largest luxury goods empire

Liliane Bettencourt
daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller ... husband, Andre Bettencourt - thought to have wartime ties with the Nazis - died Nov 2007 at age 88 ... 2009 world's richest woman ... in Dec 2010 she reconciled with her daughter who was taking her to court for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer

Francois Pinault & familly
high school drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur in 2009 ... son, Francois-Henri, married actress Salma Hayek on Valentine's Day 2009 ... art lover also owns auction house Christie's (his personal art collection, worth an estimated $1.7 billion, encompasses 2,000-plus works by over 80 artists including Pablo Picasso

Serge Dassault & family
French senato ... makers of Mirage and Rafale jets

Jean-Claude Decaux & family
started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters ... largest outdoor advertising company in the world ... places ads in 55 countries

Alain & Gerard Wertheimer
extremely discreet, press-shy brothers ... Chanel No. 5 perfume is one of the world's top selling scents

Alain Merieux & family
specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis ... eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 27. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 39

Xavier Niel
in 1984, while still in high school, he established Minitel, France's forerunner to the internet. He launched the country's first internet provider, WorldNet, in 1993 and sold it for $50 million just before the internet bubble burst

Martin & Olivier Bouygues
brothers ... Martin is a close confident of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and godfather of the president's son ... was awarded the Legion d'honneur in July 2010

Pierre Bellon & family
penned autobiography, "I've Had a Great Time"

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