At 76, Bernard Arnault is the richest man in France… and the fifth fortune of the planet. A status that allowed him to build a personal real estate empire. However, he has never forgotten his roots of which he has some memories.
The CEO of the industrial Empire LVMH, Bernard Arnault, has a fortune today estimated at 192 billion dollars. If he obviously leads a luxury life, he has never completely broken with his northern origins. The proof, he keeps a relatively simple house like a comforter in inherited from his grandparents …
Bernard Arnault attached to Roubaix: this house that he would sell for nothing in the world
At 76, Bernard Arnault has never forgotten where he came from. “”Each year in All Saints’ Day, when the all-cac 40 goes to get the sun in Marrakech, Bernard Arnault leaves in Roubaix. In his hometown, he inherited a red brick house, uninhabited for twenty-five years and without charme “, reported in 2014 an article of Capital devoted to the businessman.
If the media CEO could take his private jet to spin in the sun at the slightest opportunity, he likes to return to the North in this house for which he has a special attachment. And for good reason, it is the house of his maternal grandparents-he was very close to his grandmother Maminette “Catholico-Auvergne” – Where he lived from the age of ten when he entered Polytechnique, Paris. “She represents a lot for me”had he also entrusted to Capital.
Real estate, since renovated as pointed out La Voix du Nordlocated not far from his parents’ house, which he also decided to bequeath to Edhec, a business school, in 2021. Thanks to this donation, the group was able to open a campus in Roubaix, the Jean Arnault campus, named after the father of the famous business manager. Today it houses the Institute of Employment Vocations – whose president is Brigitte Macron – and a hundred students.
Zoom on the impressive real estate heritage of Bernard Arnault
As a good fifth biggest fortune on the planet, Bernard Arnault is also at the head of a real estate stock to make the whole world pale. This father of five -Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric and Jean -, born of two different unions and who all work within the LVMH group, has a mansion in the 7th arrondissement of Paris -one of the most expensive in the capital -, a castle in the Yvelines and a huge villa, estimated at more than 40 million euros, in Saint -Tropez.
The one who is also Xavier Niel’s stepfather since 2010 has made several other real estate investments on the Côte d’Azur: a villa at 35 million euros, a wine estate located on the heights of Capon and even two hotels. According to PurseBernard Arnault has also invested in a villa in Nyn Park, north of London, a very prestigious wine estate in Burgundy, as well as in 25 other wine -growing fields in France and in the world. Even more surprising: it has a private island of 54 hectares in the Bahamas where the family likes to go for the New Year.
