Jean-Louis Dumas, a grandson of Emile-Maurice Hermes and the former chief executive officer of Hermes, made the ranks of the Forbes World Billionaires list from the late 1990s through 2007.
He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.
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His words seemed all the truer when, less than a week after the Dumas disaster, tornadoes hit solidly Republican Georgia and Alabama.
"His only regret is that he didn't take all the necessary measures when Piquet told him he was going to crash his car into a wall, " Dumas added.
She now says that a luxury Paris flat paid for by Elf was not a second home to Mr Dumas, but that he merely popped in from time to time.
On Wednesday of next week, Roland Dumas is due to meet two magistrates investigating a murky case involving possible corruption and fraud.
Given that President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, it is perhaps convenient that Mr Dumas's Constitutional Council has ruled that a sitting president cannot be investigated.
The Hour and The Thick of It actor Peter Capaldi is to star in a new 10-part BBC One adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers.
Our next show was in Dumas, nearly 900 miles away on the Texas panhandle, and we had a day and a half to make it.
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Mr Dumas is suspected of having benefited from an illegal multi-million dollar payment to a former lover by the oil company, Elf Aquitaine.
Elf in turn employed Christine Deviers-Joncour as a consultant, who was the lover of the then-foreign minister Roland Dumas.
Reginald Dumas, Mr Annan's envoy to Haiti, says the international community needs to make a 20-year commitment to prevent the country sliding back into violence yet again.
Axel Dumas will become joint-CEO alongside Thomas in mid-2013 until Thomas leaves the firm at a future, unspecified date.
It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).
Biography: "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, " by Tom Reiss (Crown), a compelling story of a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race whose bold exploits were captured by his son, Alexander Dumas, in famous 19th century novels.
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