Liliane Bettencourt died 7 years ago at the age of 94. For most of the last 5 decades of her life, she was the world’s richest woman. That should be a wonderful life, or not…
The Bettencourt Affair is a biography of a life filled with money…but little joy, if any. The social, familial, legal and historical
drama is thought-provoking discussion. As author Tom Stanton puts it, the book is “an in depth look at an intriguing set of characters whose intense relationships…played out against the backdrop of wars, fortune, politics, art…and led to one of the most dramatic court cases in
French history. It is…very French in forms but universal in its themes.”
Amazon rates it 4.1, an NPR Best
Book of 2017… now, we discuss!
