François Paves

François Dalle (born the March 18th 1918 with Hesdin - deceased the August 9th 2005 with Swiss Geneva in ) was a head of undertaking. He transformed a SME founded by Eugene Schueller into world number one of the cosmetic products: L'Oreal.

Biography

Studying in right, it resides in the fathers Marists of the street of Vaugirard where it binds friendship with André Bettencourt and François Mitterrand. Classified among the best pupils of the Faculty of Law of Paris, it ambitionne to continue a legal career, but the financial need and the rout of 1940 push it to give up aggregation.

After a few months of free and occupied wandering between zones, it turns over to Paris where it finds André Bettencourt, then still very near to the ex- Cagoulards which it attended during his studies, and become leader-writer in a weekly magazine of the Propaganda Staffel .

It is André Bettencourt which puts his friend in liaison with his future father-in-law, Eugene Schueller, former financier of the Hood and founder with Eugene Deloncle of the revolutionary Social movement for the national Révolution (MSR). A short maintenance and here it is engaged for “half of SMIC of today” as assistant of the secretary of the sales manager to the factory Monsavon of Clichy. Exceptional circumstances helping, he becomes “de facto the owner about it” as of the end 1943. It is the beginning of a rapid rise which, in 1948, will bring it to the head office: L'Oreal.

In 1957, it succeeds the founding father, Eugene Schueller as a managing director of the group chaired by his owner André Bettencourt (which had married in 1950 Liliane Schueller, the girl of Eugene Schueller).

" The adventure Oréal"

Affirming concerned his collaborators but for better doing to them to share its “obsession of supra of quality”, it metamorphoses important French SME in a great multinational. The industrialist reported the history of the company in one entitled book " The adventure Oréal" , appeared in 2001 with the editions Odile Jacob. Telling the development of this group to the emblematic marks (DOP, Elnett, Lancôme or Gemey), François Dalle benefits from this exercise to evoke his designs of management and marketing, summarized by the maxim Schueller “To make, to demolish for better remaking”. Revealing also, reasons of the choice of its successor, Lindsay Owen-Jones: “It was the pusher of turnover which L'Oreal would need after me. ”

Honorary president of L'Oreal, he was also administrator of the group since 1950 and sat at the board of directors of Nestlé, principal shareholder of L'Oreal. He was in addition administrator of the INSEAD, Canal Plus and TF1 and president of Celsa.

The L'Oreal business

In 1989 bursts l'" business Oréal". The businessman Jean Frydman showed François Dalle “to have resigned it” of the board of directors of Paravision, subsidiary company audio-visual of L'Oreal of which it held 25% of the actions. The reason for this ousting would have been to satisfy the requirements of the Arab Ligue which struck Boycott very undertaken in direct relationship or indirect with the State of Israel. The charge turns in business of state. The dark past of each one arises whereas L'Oreal is shown to have been a refuge old Cagoulard S and ex-collaborators of the second world war. François Mitterrand is him even marked to have interfered and lied for the account of his/her friends François Dalle and André Bettencourt. This last will be obliged to withdraw direction following the revelations on its past.

The personality out of the commun run of François Dalle however did of him one of the largest captain of industry of the 20th century and a visionary except par.

François Dalle is deceased the August 9th 2005 with Geneva in Suisse leaving three heirs Jean-François Dalle, Guyonne Dalle and Jean-Baptiste Dalle. In accordance with its wish, it was incinerated and a mass was celebrated in its memory with the church of the Invalids (Paris) in presence amongst other things of Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Lindsay Owen-Jones and Liliane Bettencourt.

Distinction

François Dalle was commander of the Légion of honor and medal-holder of Resistance.

In an article published in the World with his death, François Rachline - Professor at the Institute of political studies of Paris - described François Paves like a " man impassioned by the capacity of imagination, the collective adventures, progress and the effort."

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