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French businesswoman Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal's chief shareholder

By Patrick Kovarik

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French businesswoman Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal's chief shareholder, seen here in 2007 leaving a church in Paris. On Thursday that business, now an empire, a top French brand and a leader in the world of cosmetics under the name of L'Oreal, celebrates 100 years of satisfying vanity and riding the long rise of spending on body care products. French businesswoman Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal's chief shareholder, seen here in 2007 leaving a church in Paris. On Thursday that business, now an empire, a top French brand and a leader in the world of cosmetics under the name of L'Oreal, celebrates 100 years of satisfying vanity and riding the long rise of spending on body care products.


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