Michel-Edouard Leclerc, one of the favorite bosses of the French, has an improbable passion from a very young age. He spends much of his fortune there.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc has a beautiful fortune and “Acquitta between 200,000 and 250,000 euros in taxes per year“, according to The Parisian. But did you know that the president of the E.Leclerc group spent much of his fortune in a simple pleasure?
Michel-Edouard Leclerc: this passion that has “never left it”
Michel-Edouard Leclerc has a fairly special passion: he is keen on comics! It must be said that it fell into the pot being small. “”My parents rightly thought that the student culture. Very small, I had access to the family library. We had the right to read everything! I discovered the comic strip very young – which I still like a lot, but it is not an exclusive passion -, through magazines like Tintin, Pif Gadget, the illustration and the butter plate. I also remember the pages of strips that I cut into the daily newspapers to make them albums“He explained to Capital.
Even today, the 72 -year -old boss keeps mania inherited from his childhood: “This habit did not leave me: I continue to stick, assemble, annotate things read or seen, in multiple notebooks“.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc: “His money allowed him to invest in …”
This native of Landerneau, in Finistère, is a seasoned collector of comic strip boards and also ardently supported the International Festival of the Angoulême comic strip by being the first sponsor of the event. A few years ago, he expressed with Paris-Match his desire to expose his boards as part of a permanent museum in order to “make your collection accessible to the greatest number“.
“”His money allowed him to invest in art and comics, his two real passions. He is the first private comic book collector in France“, confirmed Magali Picard, who wrote a book-investigation on the boss of the E.Leclerc group. Some time ago, the one who was appointed” preferred boss of the French “according to a Forbes of 2021 had a House in Suderolo, in Dordogne, in which he had devoted two rooms to his comics, according to Les Echos. When we love, we don’t count!
