French Heiress vs. Daughter and Political Intrigue

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When I looked in to Liliane Bettencourt, this 89 year old billionaire in France, obviously I thought she was a tribe member,  however looking into to her father

Its founder in 1909, Eugéne Schueller, Mrs. Bettencourt's father, supported the Nazis; Mrs. Bettencourt's husband, André, wrote for a Nazi-sponsored, anti-Semitic weekly in the early years of the war.

But André Bettencourt later joined the French Resistance and was a youthful friend of François Mitterrand, the future Socialist president. After the war, Mr. Mitterrand helped protect the Bettencourt family and L'Oréal from anti-Nazi campaigns and even considered making Mr. Bettencourt prime minister in 1986.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/world ... ?ref=world

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François Mitterrand



 His father, Joseph Gilbert Félix . . . Joseph's maternal grandmother, Marguerite du Soulier de Clareuil, was a noblewoman and a descendant of both Fernando III of Castile and Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem. Mitterrand's mother was Marie Gabrielle Yvonne Lorrain, a remote niece of Pope John XXII by a genealogical link with the lords de Barbezières. He had three brothers (Robert, Jacques and Philippe) and four sisters.




Pierre Mendès France & Miterrand
After serving with the Free French Air Force, Mendès France was sent by de Gaulle as his Finance Commissioner in Algeria, and then headed the French delegation to the 1944 monetary conference at Bretton Woods. When de Gaulle returned to liberated Paris in September 1944, he appointed Mendès France as Minister for National Economy in the provisional government.

Nonetheless, de Gaulle valued Mendès France's abilities, and appointed him as a director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and as French representative in the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

When French forces were defeated by the Vietnamese Communists at Dien Bien Phu in June 1954, the government of Joseph Laniel resigned, and Mendès France formed a government. Among his ministers was the young François Mitterrand.

An advocate of greater European integration, he helped bring about the formation of the Western European Union, and proposed far-reaching economic reform. He also favoured defence co-operation with other European countries, but the National Assembly rejected the proposal for a European Defence Community . . .  When Mitterrand formed a new Socialist Party in 1971, Mendès France supported him . . . Shortly before Mendès France died in 1982, he witnessed the coming to office of Socialist President François Mitterrand.

Pierre Mendès France
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Co-prince of Andorra
On 2 February 1993, in his capacity as co-prince of Andorra, Mitterrand and Joan Martí Alanis, who was Bishop of Urgell and therefore Andorra's other co-prince, signed Andorra's new constitution, which was later approved by referendum in the principality.



François Mitterrand's actions during World War II were the cause of much controversy in France in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mitterrand was at the end of his national service when the war broke out. He fought as an infantry sergeant and was injured and captured by the Germans on 14 June 1940. He was held prisoner at Stalag IXA near Ziegenhain (today called Trutzhain, a village near Kassel in Hesse).
With help from a friend of his mother he got a job as a mid-level functionary of the Vichy government, looking after the interests of POWs. This was very unusual for an escaped prisoner, and he later claimed to have served as a spy for the Free French Forces.

. . . Others, such as Pierre Moscovici and Jacques Attali remain sceptical of Mitterrand's true beliefs at this time, accusing him of having at best a "foot in each camp" until he was sure who the winner would be, citing Mitterrand friendship with René Bousquet and the wreaths he placed on Pétain's tomb as examples of his ambivalent attitude.

. . . [his] second [presidential] term was marked by . . .  the institution of the Generalized social tax, the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, the 1990 Gayssot Act on hate speech and Holocaust denial, the Arpaillange Act on the financing of political parties, the reform of the penal code and the Evin Act on smoking in public places. . .  the scandals about financing of the party, the contaminated blood scandal which implicated Laurent Fabius and former ministers Georgina Dufoix and Emond Hervé, and the Elysée wiretaps affairs.

 He worked well with Helmut Kohl and improved Franco-German relations significantly. Together they fathered the Maastricht Treaty, which was signed on 7 February 1992.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Brienne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand




Rothschild returned to the bank's offices at rue Laffitte in Paris in 1944 and reconstructed the family's Banking and Business Empire. George Pompidou, who would later become President and Prime Minister of France, was recruited by Rothschild from a job as a teacher, and worked for him from 1953 to 1962, during which time he became the general manager of the Rothschild bank. The bank diversified, from investment management under De Rothschild Frères to the deposit-taking Banque de Rothschild, with branches throughout France. Rothschild was its president from 1968 to 1978. He retired as chairman of the bank in 1979.

When the bank was nationalized in 1981 by the socialist government of François Mitterrand, Rothschild left France in anger and moved temporarily to New York. There he helped run a small Rothschild family business. Rothschild was so disgusted about what France had once again done to his family, that before he left the country, he published a famous front-page article in Le Monde accusing the Socialist government of indulging French anti-Semites. Rothschild concluded the article, "A Jew under Petain, a pariah under Mitterand – for me it's enough." Not only had the State seized control of the bank, but after merging the family's holding company, Compagnie du Nord, with the bank in 1978, the State also gained the family's stake in many of the mining and industrial interests that Rothschild had built.

In 1984, Rothschild's son David and his cousin, Eric de Rothschild, received permission from the Socialist government to found a new bank. Banned from using the family name, the bank was named Paris Orléans Banque. With the election of Gaullist Jacques Chirac as French Prime Minister in 1986, the restrictions on the bank name were lifted. The bank was renamed Rothschild et Associes Banque and later Rothschild & Cie Banque.
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Liliane Bettencourt




Bettencourt was born in Paris, France, the only child of Eugène Schueller, a French Jew, and the founder of L'Oréal, one of the world's largest cosmetics and beauty companies.

In June 2010, Ms. Bettencourt became embroiled in a high-level French political scandal after other details of the tape recordings made by her butler became public. The tapes allegedly picked up conversations between Bettencourt and her financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre, which indicate that Bettencourt may have avoided paying taxes by keeping a substantial amount of cash in undeclared Swiss bank accounts. The tapes also allegedly captured a conversation between Bettencourt and Éric Woerth, who was soliciting a job for his wife managing Bettencourt's wealth, while he was acting as budget minister and running a high-profile campaign to catch wealthy tax evaders. Moreover, Ms Bettencourt received a €30 million tax rebate while Mr Woerth was budget minister.

In July 2010, the scandal appeared to widen after Bettencourt's former accountant, Claire Thibout, alleged in an interview with the French investigative web-site Mediapart, that conservative French politicians were frequently given envelopes stuffed with cash at the Bettencourt's mansion in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She alleged that Mr Woerth, while acting as treasurer for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), was given an envelope containing €150,000 in cash in March 2007 towards the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. She also made, then retracted, a claim that Mr Sarkozy was a frequent visitor to the Bettencourt's home while he was mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002 and received envelopes containing cash. Mr Sarkozy and Mr Woerth both deny wrongdoing. Following these allegations, French police raided the home and office of Mr de Maistre, who heads Clymène, the company owned by Ms Bettencourt to manage her wealth. Political donations are limited to €7,500 for political parties and €4,600 for individuals. Contributions above €150 must be paid by cheque with the donor clearly identified.

Forbes' rankings
Forbes ranks Bettencourt at 17th in its list of the world's wealthiest persons with an estimated fortune of US$20 billion. She is the richest woman in Europe, the third richest woman in the world (behind Christy Walton and Alice Walton and the second richest person in France (behind Bernard Arnault).

In 2005, Forbes judged her to be the 39th most powerful woman in the world


Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers is a French heiress, and author of Bible commentaries, and Jewish-Christian relations[1]. The only daughter and thus under french law heiress of Liliane Bettencourt, Meyers was raised in a strictly Catholic household. However she married the Jewish grandson of a Rabbi, murdered at Aushwitz. After marriage, Meyers decided to convert and raise her children as Jews[2]. Her marriage caused controversy as a result of Meyer's grandfather's trial for collaboration with the Nazi regime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Bettencourt_Meyers

Mrs. Bettencourt's father, supported the Nazis

supported the Nazis? Or more likely coming from the same little exclusive especial crowd controlling boths sides of the conflict by then -- > the NaZi and the ZioN as required by logic on those exacts positions of power, as expected ?  

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