Oddly enough, his book, published in England two years ago and a bestseller in the US and India, has already been translated into Romanian, Russian and Chinese before being translated into French. “The first interested publisher in France wanted me to cut the text, which he found too long… I really didn’t understand why and I wasn’t in favor of it. Finally, thanks to Éditions Les Arènes for the version released this week, I even enriched it after new encounters. he says, sitting on a sofa in the lobby of the Hotel Regina, in the shadow of the Louvre and Tuileries Gardens. Oxford-based Francesca Cartier Brickell is in Paris for the French edition of her story, soberly titled; The Cartiers. The subtitle reads: “The incredible story of three brothers who turned a humble Parisian jewelry store into a luxurious global empire.“. (In English this gave The untold story of the family behind the jewelry empire) It…
Source: Le Figaro
