There are six of them. The first baron is a magnificent character. Wallon, born in Beloeil, is an innovative, empirical and visionary businessman. He built up a huge fortune all over the world, invented a city in Egypt, and created the Paris Metro. He will be conqueror with Leopold II and general with Albert I.
The last baron conquers the Schneider empire, the flagship of the French nuclear industry. In 1978, he was kidnapped, sequestered, mutilated, and his private life was exposed. An ordeal from which he will not recover professionally.
Between the two, a pleasure-seeking baron, another in search of sanctity, a third humiliated and offended, and a last one, unloved and rejected by the family. And a few striking baronesses…
The chronicle of a century of capitalism and of an excessive family.
The Barons Empain, the shattered dynasty
There are six of them. The first baron is a magnificent character. Wallon, born in Beloeil, is an innovative, empirical and visionary businessman. He built up an immense fortune all over the world, invented a city in Egypt, and created the Paris Metro. He will be conqueror with Leopold II and general with Albert I.
The last baron conquers the Schneider empire, the flagship of the French nuclear industry. In 1978, he was kidnapped, sequestered, mutilated, and his private life was exposed. An ordeal from which he will not recover professionally.
Between the two, a pleasure-seeking baron, another in search of sanctity, a third humiliated and offended, and a last one, unloved and rejected by the family. And a few striking baronesses…
The chronicle of a century of capitalism and of an excessive family.
