The man with a thousand lives
Oct 08, 2021
2 minutes
“He was awarded €403m in damages and was then ordered to pay it back. ‘I am ruined,’ he said. ‘Ruined.’”
Famed for his tan and bouffant hair, Bernard Tapie, who has died aged 78, was by far France’s most glamorous business tycoon: admired even by detractors for his derringdo. “Half Count of Monte Cristo, half Jean Valjean” (hero of Victor Hugo’s ), he “wrote
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