It was necessary to show a white paw and be patient to meet Franky Mulliez, the new owner of the castle of Dampierre-en-Yvelines.
“It is always up and down, I myself don't see it much,”
the manager of the estate, Pascal Thévard, regularly told us.
But, one day in October, a meeting was fixed in the heart of the forest, in the little pavilion that the Mulliezes have arranged, a sign that they are beginning to take root there.
"You will see, he can sometimes be silent"
, had warned the director.
After two hours of maintenance, it is clear that it is not always.
Like these men who have been very successful in business, Franky Mulliez knows how to indulge if he is confident.
His wife, Marine, may try to correct him, from time to time he speaks with a joyful freedom of tone.
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