Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action

JonS · July 22, 2019, 12:23am

There’s a weirdly large number of folk in this thread defending the Arnault and Pinault families, the L’Oréal family foundation, and Total for reneging on their very public promises.

I’m looking at you Jorpho, lulybean, Jason_Sewell, and zhasu.

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Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action

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