Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family
Source of wealth: L'Oréal
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Biography
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal.
Bettencourt Meyers and her immediate family own more than a third of the publicly traded beauty giant.
She served on L'Oreal's board from 1997 to 2025. When she retired, her son Jean-Victor Meyers replaced her as vice chairman. Her son Nicolas Meyers is also a director.
She became France's reigning L'Oreal heiress in 2017 when her mother Liliane Bettencourt, then the world's richest woman, died at age 94.
Bettencourt Meyers also serves as the president of her family's philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts.
Together, L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Meyers family agreed to donate $226 million to help repair Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral following the 2019 fire.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family's fortune is equivalent to 623 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could buy 166,036,239 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 30 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 41.6 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 18.4 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 27.2 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could pay for it in full for 36.9 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 155.5 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 3.5 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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