Marie-Jeanne Meyer (born 1942) is a French billionaire and member of the Louis Dreyfus family.

Early life

Born Marie-Jeanne Louis-Dreyfus, she was one of three children born to Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus. Her brother is

Robert Louis-Dreyfus Robert Louis-Dreyfus ( – ) was a French businessman who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Adidas (then, "Adidas Salomon") and Saatchi & Saatchi. He was a majority shareholder of the French football team Olympique de Marseille, and durin ...

and her sister is Monique Roosmale Nepveu.Who's Who in France: "Biographie Jean Louis-dreyfus"
February 2, 2003Bourdon, Jean-Claude and Jacques-Olivier Martin ''Robert Louis-Dreyfus: Les aventures d'un Don Juan des affaires'' (2007), 293 pages, Her father was

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

and her mother

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

.Paris Match: "“Robert Louis-Dreyfus, un seigneur qui voyait loin et visait haut" by Jacques Veyrat
July 8, 2009 (''in French'') , ''"...cet agnostique, fils d’un juif et d’une catholique..." / "...this agnostic, the son of a Jew and a Catholic..."'' She is the great granddaughter of

Léopold Louis-Dreyfus Léopold Louis-Dreyfus (5 March 1833 – 9 April 1915) was a French businessman, diplomat, and investor who was best known as the founder of the Louis Dreyfus Group, and patriarch of the Louis-Dreyfus family. The French government awarded him t ...

, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, which had begun buying and selling wheat in the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

region a century earlier, and rapidly diversified into shipping, oil and other commodities. Her grandfather was

Louis Louis-Dreyfus Louis Louis-Dreyfus (September 6, 1867 – November 10, 1940) was a member of the French parliament and co-director of the commodity distribution and trading company, Louis Dreyfus Group. Biography Louis-Dreyfus was born in Zurich to a Jewish fam ...

who served in the French Parliament during the

French Third Republic The French Third Republic (french: Troisième République, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 ...

.Ancien sénateur des Alpes-Maritimes
August 17, 2013 After the death of her brother Robert, his widow and second wife

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (née Bogdanova; born 1 July 1962) is a Russian-born Swiss billionaire businesswoman, chairperson of the Louis-Dreyfus Group. Early life Born Margarita Olegovna Bogdanova (russian: Маргарита Олеговна Бо ...

(b: Rita Bogdanova), inherited 60% of the

Louis Dreyfus Group Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC), also called the Louis-Dreyfus Group, is a French merchant firm that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, dev ...

, fr.wikipedia (later increased to 65% in 2012). As of 2013, Marie-Jeanne owned 12.5% of the Louis Dreyfus Group making her a billionaire.Forbes: "Rising Commodity Prices Created Three Louis-Dreyfus Billionaires" by Zohair Siraj
November 7, 2012 In 2009, she founded the venture capital company Florac SAS.Florac: "La Societe"
retrieved August 24, 2014 As of March 2015, she had a net worth of US$1.5 billion.Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Marie-Jeanne Meyer
August 2014

Personal life

She is married to Philippe Meyer. They have three children. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is her cousin.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Marie-Jeanne 1942 births French billionaires French people of Jewish descent Louis-Dreyfus family Living people