Andre Bettencourt

Biography

André Bettencourt is born in an old middle-class family catholic Norman, downward of the navigator Jean de Béthencourt. His/her father, Victor, are lawyer with the Court of Appeal of Paris and general adviser of the Seine-Lower . His/her older brother, Pierre (1917-2006), will become artist.

Studying in right in the years 1935-1937, residing at the boarding school of the fathers Marists, located at the 104, Street of Vaugirard in Paris, he attends members of then the Hood in company of his friends Pierre Bénouville, Claude Roy and François Mitterrand. He meets also Eugene Schueller, founder of L'Oreal and the financial main thing of the organization of Extreme-right-hand side.

According to Thierry Meyssan, André Bettencourt directs under the Régime of Vichy, the Propaganda Staffel, “under triple supervision of the Minister for propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo”. He writes between 1940 and 1942 in the review collaborationnist the French Earth , in which he writes the chronicles “Ohé! young people! ”. The next December 20th, charged with the leading article of Christmas, he affirms: One day, thirty years later, the Jews will however think to gain the part. They had succeeded in putting the hand on Jesus and had crucifié it. By rubbing the hands, they had exclaimed: “that its blood falls down on us and our children”. You know besides how it still fell down and fall down. It is necessary that achieve the regulations of the book eternal , and it receives the Military Cross 1939-1945, the rivet washer of Resistance and the Cross of knight of the Légion of honor, and was for this reason one of the rare French politicians to have to dialog on line with Mao-Tsé Toung.

Locally, he becomes mayor of Saint-Maurice-in Ételan in 1965, preserves his mandate of general adviser of Seine-Maritime until 1979, and chairs the District council of High-Normandy of 1974 to 1981. He takes part in the creation of the district Lillebonne-Our-Lady-of-Gravenchon, and the departmental trade union of water. He is also the initiator of the Regional natural park of Brotonne, of the prolongation of the Autoroute of Normandy, the development of the port of the Havre.

In 1986, it is very briefly quoted as possible Prime Minister of François Mitterrand within the framework of the first government of Cohabitation because of their old friendship

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