Talk:Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

Pronunciation of Meyers
An unsigned editor previously removed the [s] from the French pronunciation of Meyers saying "[ʁs] is not a possible coda in french", which is patently false (e.g. Mars, ours). French news channels pronounce the name [mɛjɛʁs] as does her family lawyer (video). --Iceager (talk) 03:59, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

lake images
add more images Piyushyaadav (talk) 17:46, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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Whose mother died?
I've corrected an amusing mixup in the opening paragraph.

It read: "... granddaughter of L'Oréal Paris founder Eugène Schueller. His mother passed away in September 2017 ..."

Eugène was Francoise's grandfather, so his mother would be her great-grandmother. It would remarkable if she was still alive in 2017.

It's clear from the Biography section further down that it was Françoise's mother who passed away in 2017.

What probably caused this error (there are three further examples in the same sentence that I have also fixed) is a translation error from a French source. Possessive pronouns in French work differently to English, taking their grammatical gender from the thing possessed rather than the possessor as in English. This confuses translation bots, who have no information about which gender the possessor is. So they often get it wrong. A human can use the wider context to see it's Françoise not Eugene. Istobe (talk) 01:52, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Photo
Why is there no photo of her? 2600:100F:B07C:5F46:6CEA:FFD4:8BA9:374A (talk) 14:37, 14 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I took want to know why there is not a picture f the person In this article?? Korrennar (talk) 17:26, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Francoise bettencour
Concern 152.36.222.52 (talk) 08:43, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Fake Facebook page
There is a Facebook page purported to be that of Francoise. It's being operated under the name of a charity foundation - Bennetcourt Foundation. The operators are using it to cheat for money. Please kindly track it down

Thank you 154.160.20.88 (talk) 16:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)