Money and power, glamor and drama, conquests and defeats. The life of Arnaud Lagardère resembles those that unfold each week on the glossy paper of one of the last newspapers he owns. At the head of a group once as powerful in the world of media and publishing as in that of arms dealers, he now has one knee on the ground. The heir to Jean-Luc Lagardère may be living his last days at the helm of the empire built by his father in France during the Pompidou years.
Vincent Bolloré in ambush
For several years, Vincent Bolloré has been in ambush. Paris Match, the JDD, Europe 1, Hachette and the thousands of Relay shops open in stations and airports around the world… the Breton billionaire is in the process of buying the last jewels of the Lagardère crown.
How could such an influential group falter to the point of becoming easy prey for the big cats of French capitalism? Will the industrial dynasty dreamed of by the father come to an end under the reign of the son? “Additional investigation” on the Lagardère empire, whose history has often been written in the shadow of statesmen and presidents of the Republic.
A report by Guillaume Couderc, Julien Daguerre and Karim Annette.
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