2023-07-31 17:53:28
Alexandre Barrière and his father, Dominique Desseigne, in front of the Grand Hôtel Barrière in Dinard, June 15, 2019. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff / Getty Images
EMPIRES AND WARS OF HEIRS (1/5) – Fouquet’s, Le Majestic, Le Normandy… Diane Barrière’s legacy has shattered her family.
Family capitalism has built some of the finest businesses and greatest fortunes in the world. But each passing of the baton from one generation to another is a perilous moment. When a company is inherited, brothers and sisters, cousins, sons and daughters, children and parents, sometimes tear each other apart for the heritage and the power. Le Figaro chronicles some of these battles, both private and public.
Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs-Élysées, Le Majestic hotel in Cannes, Le Normandy in Deauville, the Enghien casino too… Collecting prestigious addresses, the Barrière group lives to the rhythm of slot machines, blackjack , the Cannes Film Festival and the Césars. But, while the stars parade on its red carpets, a terrible inheritance battle has been played out for the group, between a father, Dominique Desseigne, and his children, Alexandre and Joy.
After years of tension, war broke out a year ago, when Alexander, today…
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