France is going through a difficult period of budgetary austerity. The government wants to save money and to do so, it is cutting social spending, increasing the uncertainty of the most vulnerable French people. In parallel with the progress of poverty, the rich are getting richer.
In addition, many organizations condemn the unequal distribution of wealth. This is the case of the NGO Oxfam which has highlighted these inequalities in its report titled Big fortunes and small systems… Billionaires are king against the states”. The report, published in early 2024, reminds us that the gap between the richest and the rest continues to widen.
In France, ” The richest 1% own 36% of financial wealth… The four richest French billionaires and their families (Arnault, Bettencourt, Meyers, Gérard and Alain Wertheimer) have seen their wealth increase by 87%. At the same time, the accumulated wealth of the French has declined », this report suggests.
Top 10 Richest Women in France
It must be said that the rich French are well-ranked worldwide. Moreover, the richest woman in the world is French. This is Francois Bettencourt Meyers who has amassed an estimated fortune of over 80 billion euros. She inherited the family business L’Oreal On the death of his mother Lillian in 2017. This woman is ahead of the American Julia Koch, who comes in second place in the world, by almost 20 billion euros.
Marie-Hélène Hébert-Dussault and the Dussault family come in second, with an estimated fortune of 32 billion euros. He is the Communications and Sponsorship Director for the Dassault Group. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the widow of billionaire Robert-Louis Dreyfus, is third in the ranking, with an estimated fortune of 7.71 billion euros. The 62-year-old is best known for being the president of Olympique de Marseille from 2009 to 2016.
The fourth place in this top 10 is occupied by Marie-Christine Coisne-Roquette, whose wealth is estimated at 7.18 billion euros. He is the President of Sonepar Group, the world’s number one distributor of electrical equipment since 2002. Anne Beaufort ranks 5th with a net worth of around 5.13 billion euros. She is the heiress of the Ipsen Company (a French biopharmaceutical group, specializing in oncology and neuroscience), which was founded by her father in 1929.
In 6th place, we find Sophie Bellon, head of the French multinational Sodexo. Her net worth is 4.63 billion euros. She is followed by Jeanette Moulin with 4.21 billion euros. Ariane de Rothschild, with 2.29 billion euros, comes in 8th place. She is followed by Marie-Jean Mayer with a net worth of $1.9 billion. Evelyne Gomez closes out the top 10 with an estimated net worth of 1.75 billion euros.
