Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swaːz bɛtɑ̃kuːʁ mɛjɛʁs]) is a French Jewish heiress and author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian relations.^[1] The only daughter and thus under French law heiress of Liliane Bettencourt. she married the Jewish grandson of a rabbi murdered at Auschwitz. After marriage, Meyers decided to convert and raise her children as Jews.^[1] Her marriage caused controversy as a result of her grandfather, Eugène Schueller's, trial for collaboration with the Nazi regime.^[2]

In 2008, she sued François-Marie Banier for taking money from her 'unstable' mother.,^[2] and started proceedings to have her mother declared mentally incompetent. The revelations in the secret recordings she used in evidence, were at the origin of the Woerth-Bettencourt scandal. In December 2010, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers announced that she had settled out of court with François-Marie Banier and her mother.^[3]

Bibliography

• The Greek gods. Genealogy (Les Dieux grecs. Généalogies), Paris, éd. Christian, 1994, 511 p.
• A look at the Bible (Regard sur la Bible), 5 vol., Introduction by Alain Decaux, Published, November 2008, awarded the prix des Lauriers Verts (section « Spirituality ») in 2009:
  • Words and expressions originating in the Bible
  • From one Testament to the other, Judaism and Catholicism
  • Family Tree of Adam Eve, and the Tribes of Israel
  • Animals, Plants, Measures, money, and numbers in the Bible
  • Genealogic section

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