It is whether the respondent is important in this story

The conflict between the heir of l ' Oréal, Liliane Bettencourt, and her daughter, Françoise Meyers, is psychological, economic and political aspects which refer the France to its history.

The resumption of legal hostilities which seemed completed shows that their dispute is stronger that the interest in washing dirty linen in family, believes Marie-France Etchegoin, author of a book on the subject, entitled "A billion of secrets".

"Despite all the financial issues are colossal, policy issues, the conflict between the mother and daughter is at risk again of significant collateral damage," said the journalist who investigated the family saga. "It is whether the respondent is important in this story."

Family secrets are likely therefore to weigh on the future of the number one world of cosmetics, icon of the French industrial success, and perhaps in the presidential election of 2012, and l ' Oréal has always had political ties.

According to Marie-France Etchegoin, malaise between the mother and her daughter has psychological roots, Liliane Bettencourt, who lost her mother very young and Françoise Meyers failed to see his own, very ill during his childhood.

"There was a difficulty to find the instructions for use of the mother-daughter relationship." "There has been a series of misunderstandings, distance and irritation between them", said the journalist.

Liliane Bettencourt and his daughter have two personalities competing, the first magnet business, social, and public life that her daughter flees.

"THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST"

It is also what Marie-France Etchegoin calls "the ghosts of the past". In 1984 marriage to Françoise with Jean-Pierre Meyers, grandson of a Rabbi died in Auschwitz, could appear to Liliane Bettencourt as "a challenge at least subliminally to his father", Eugène Schueller.

The inventor of the dyes hair shampoo, founder of l ' Oréal in the early 20th century, was a support of the clandestine group of extreme right the hood and the collaboration with the nazis during the war.

This black history has never ceased to plague the family, André Bettencourt, Liliane husband and father of Françoise, to leave L'Oreal in the 1990s when his anti-Semitic journalistic writings during the Occupation were revealed.

Since the end of the first episode of the mother-daughter end 2010 conflict, resulted in an agreement hunting photographer François-Marie Banier of the entourage of Liliane Bettencourt with the abandonment of 600 million euros, Jean-Pierre Meyers is CEO of Tethys, company that manages the Bettencourt fortune.

The two children of the couple sit on the Supervisory Board. So, they will see what will be the future of the Pact between the Bettencourt and Nestlé, each being holders of 30 of the shares of l ' Oréal. The status quo is promised in this Covenant as Liliane Battencourt is alive and well, and at least until 2014.

The record is political according Marie-France Etchegoin because "the case of Bettencourt has the merit of showing collusion between politics and money".

These links take root in the 1930s when André Bettencourt, - who knew Eugène Schueller - François Mitterrand and François Dalle - fufur historical CEO of l ' Oréal - lived together in a boarding school of the 104, rue Vaugirard.

The trio will be annually for a dinner in the Elysee Palace under the chairmanship of François Mitterrand. André Bettencourt has made a career on the right with many departments from 1966 to 1973.

In 1981, when is created the tax on large fortunes, André Bettencourt protests from François Mitterrand. "You and Liliane you will still food, but je I am going to see this I can do", replied the President, selon Marie-France Etchegoin story.

Finally, the tool was exonerated.

Today, three Bordeaux judges investigating stories of André Bettencourt cash rebates to politicians from all sides, supposed to have been usual long, and a supposedly occult financing of the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007.