Bernard Arnault, a French business tycoon became the world's richest man exceeding Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Arnault is chairman of the world's largest luxury goods company like Louis Vuitton with a net worth of $188.6 billion. Bernard Arnault along with being a businessman is also a family man, his family holds important positions in his company.
Bernard Arnault's Wife Helene Mercier
Arnault is currently married to Helene Mercier, their love bloomed in 1990. At that time Arnault was already married to Anne Dewavrin, his first spouse. In 1991, Helene Mercier and Arnault got married and together have three children, Alexandre, Frédéric, and Jean, currently working with their father Arnault.
Who Is Helene Mercier?
- Helene Mercier is a world-renowned Canadian concert pianist.
- Helene Mercier was born in Montreal and began studying piano at the age of six.
- Mercier since young age won first prizes in several national competitions. She also became a laureate of the International Chamber Music Competition in Prague.
- She took Dieter Weber’s class at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts at the age of 15. Later for higher education, she went to Juilliard School in New York with Sascha Gorodnitzki and to France to study with Pierre Sancan and Germaine Mounier.
- She performed at various festivals such as Aix-en-Provence, Menton, Colmar, Piano aux Jacobins, La Chaise-Dieu, Radio-France in Montpellier, France-Culture, and Radio Suisse-Romande.
- She recorded with the Edward Gardner directorial BBC Philharmonic, also with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi, as well as with Sir Andrew Davis.
- Her work has been featured by Ravel, Mozart, Schubert, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, and Saint-Saëns, a few of the best in the world.
-Helene Mercier is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- She first met Arnault in the fall of 1989 at a dinner party, it is reportedly said together they spent new year's eve of 1989.
- Both being fans of music something clicked between them. A 2009 feature has an anecdote from the Mercier-Arnault relationship, in which Mercier candidly recalled that she asked Arnault to play something for her, and his “hands were trembling, he was dying of fear, but he was determined to get to the end.”
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