Bernard Arnault in “Le Monde”, of a younger entrepreneur “equal to a head of state” | EUROtoday

BErnard Arnault has undergone two “cold showers” these days. The first, by discovering the challenge of François Bayrou’s authorities to subjugate massive corporations to a company tax surcharge within the 2025 funds. “To push relocation, it’s ideal”, Grinized the CEO of LVMH on January 28, evoking a “Cold shower” Compared to huge tax cuts promised by Donald Trump within the United States.

A second frozen torrent instantly adopted, this time, this time, on the air of the betrayal of nationwide pursuits. The tone rose so robust – from the secretary common of the CGT, Sophie Binet (“The rats leave the ship”), on the massive distribution baron Michel-Edouard Leclerc (“Sking up”) – that the billionaire felt obliged to react. “It is precisely because I love France (…) that I wanted to alert to measures which seem to me in all points counterproductive ”, he said, on X.

The first time Bernard Arnault has been talked about in him in THE World, In any case, it is about a tricolor heritage monument: The French hunter,, Journal as famous for her wild boar photos as her matrimonial classifieds. On January 31, 1981, a brief reported the transfer of this “Monthly typically thought of because the flagship of Manufrance (650,000 copies in June 1979)” By his boss of the time, a certain Bernard Tapie.

The purchaser-the company’s company, ex-public works company, now specialized in real estate promotion-is led by “Mr. Bernard Arnault, 31, son of the founding president”. A young entrepreneur who will expand without noise in the United States, a few months later, in reaction to the election of François Mitterrand and his program of nationalizations.

Luxury is the big deal

Bernard Arnault, however, quickly finds himself agreeing with the new socialist power. The latter granted him, in 1984, the resumption of the group founded by Marcel Boussac, the “King of Cotton”, owner in particular of Christian Dior and the Bon Marché. An empire placed under supervision of the State due to serious financial difficulties. The plan presented by Bernard Arnault, notes the journalist André Dessot, on December 19, 1984, “Gives the French textile trade the sudden alternative to discover a new breath to reorganize within the three instructions that are the actions of Boussac: clothes, decor and linen”.

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