Shares of French cosmetics giant L 'Oreal hit a record high on Thursday.
After the epidemic ended, people used fewer cosmetics, but the company's sales increased, and its stock price hit its best performance since the company was founded in 1909.
The rise in L 'Oreal's share price has another effect
L 'Oreal founder Eugene Schueller (Eugene Schueller) granddaughter, the L 'Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers (Francoise Bettencourt Meyers) accumulated a net worth of $100 billion.
She is now not only the richest woman in the world, the 12th richest person in the world, but also the first woman in the world with a net worth of $100 billion.
As the family heir and one of the world's richest women, Francoise has a decisive side of killing,
But there is also another side that does not quite fit the stereotype of the "three rich generations"......
Francoise was born on July 10, 1953, and is 70 years old.
Her maternal grandfather, Eugene Schuler, was a chemist who started by developing hair dye and supplying it to Paris salons, a business that grew into the now famous L 'Oreal Group.
Eugene Schuler had an only child, Liliane Bettencourt.
Liliana lost her mother at the age of five and went to work for L 'Oreal for the first time at 15, labeling shampoo bottles in the factory.
When Liliana was 35 years old, Eugene Schuler died and Liliana inherited the L 'Oreal Empire.
She did not have much ambition for the management of the company, leaving the operation of the company in the hands of the CEO, and people are more familiar with her status as a "socialite".
Liliana's husband, Andre Bettencourt, also came from an extraordinary background, having been a member of de Gaulle's government in the 1960s and 1970s.
After marriage, Liliana lived a life of luxury and even bought an island in the Seychelles.
In 1953, Liliana and Andre's only child, Francoise, was born, ushering in the third generation of the L 'Oreal family.
During her childhood, Francoise was estranged from her mother.
Because her mother had contracted tuberculosis, she could not have contact with infant Francoise while she was convalescing in a nursing home.
When she reached school age, her parents, fearing that Francoise would be kidnapped, had to withdraw her from school and home-schooled her.
From then on, she began to love playing the piano, which became a comfort in her lonely childhood.
At the age of 19, Francoise met a man five years her senior, Jean-Pierre Meyers, and the two fell in love.
The son of a L 'Oreal manager, Jean-Pierre came from a wealthy family of French-Jewish bankers.
In 1984, the young couple chose to marry in a small ceremony in Tuscany, Italy, attended by only nine guests.
In the face of speculation, Francoise has always insisted that they were not married in secret, and they threw an even bigger reception when they returned to France.
At first, life was quiet for Francoise and her husband, who became involved in the L 'Oreal business when he became a board member in 1987.
But five years later, their marriage faced a big test, and the problem was Francoise's family.
At that time, it was suddenly discovered that her maternal grandfather and father had both supported the activities of the fascist group Rackagul, which had links to the Nazi government, before World War II.
As it happens, Francoise's husband, Jean-Pierre, is Jewish, and his grandfather was a Jewish rabbi who died in Auschwitz.
Francoise married him and had two children, whom the couple also raised in Jewish ways.
But in the end, blood is thicker than water, Francoise did not alienate her family because of this incident, and took care of her father until he died in 2007.
After her father died, Francoise took charge of her mother, and their relationship became close.
But for one thing, their mother-daughter relationship was put to the test.
In 2008, Francoise sued eight of her mother's entourage, including one of her best friends, social photographer Barnier, accusing Barnier of manipulating her widowed mother into giving him gifts worth more than 1 billion euros, including various artworks, cash and insurance.
Francoise argued that her octogenarian mother was mentally unsound and manipulated by those around her, especially the defendant Barnier.
The mother thought her daughter was a little nosy and said in an interview with the press,
"My daughter could have waited patiently for me to die instead of doing everything she could to hasten it."
Francoise didn't let her mother's attitude dissuade her from pressing charges.
In order to obtain evidence that her mother was being manipulated, she asked her mother's housekeeper to secretly record conversations between her mother and her staff during meetings for nearly a year, which she submitted to the justice Department in June 2010.
