Les Franciscaines Women's Open Book: "Successions" - Raphaëlle Bacqué & Vanessa Schneider

Raphaëlle Bacqué and Vanessa Schneider, senior reporters at Le Monde, have been investigating the great dynasties of French capitalism for months. They published a series of fascinating articles in Le Monde in the summer of 2022, followed by a book: "Successions". An investigation rich in revelations. The true nature of power and the family secrets of French capitalism.
Every great captain of industry, concerned about his succession, aspires to choose his heir in advance, to prepare him, and at the same time not to crush him. Bolloré, Bouygues, Mulliez, Peugeot, Pinault, Lagardère, Bettencourt... Behind these French industrial empires, stories of succession are woven and rewoven, of fathers who do not want to die, of sons who defy them, of brothers who hate each other, of sorrows, of humiliations, of treachery... As in Greek tragedies and Shakespearian dramas, French capitalism is made of human flesh, with psychoanalytical conflicts, betrayals, brutal disappearances, reversals, alliances and reversals of situations... that poison the bonds of blood.

Meeting, followed by a signature, animated by Philippe Normand, Cultural Director Les Franciscaines.