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3 unusual facts about Pierre Bergé


Pierre Bergé

The art collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Bergé was put up for sale by the latter in February 2009, with two of twelve bronze statue heads looted from the Old Summer Palace in China during the Second Opium War among them.

On November 2, 2010, he bought a stake in Le Monde newspaper, along with investors Matthieu Pigasse and Xavier Niel.

In 1994, he participated with Line Renaud in the creation of the AIDS association Sidaction, and he became its president in 1996, a position he still holds.


Courrier International

Conceived in the autumn of 1987 by four Parisians, Jean-Michel Boissier, Hervé Lavergne, Maurice Ronai and Jacques Rosselin, it was first published on the 8 November 1990, one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, financed by Pierre Bergé and Guy de Wouters (of the Société Générale de Belgique).


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