Airy Routier
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Primary Evidence
"in reality, he knows perfectly well what he wants to do: to become, as soon as possible, the boss of the family business."
"In 1989, the company will employ 900 people. The success is spectacular: for many clients, who are not homeowners, it is their first real estate purchase."
"Without any hesitation, he warns the talkative ones after six months of cacophony. "I'm the boss. From Monday morning, I'll be there, and I'll personally run the company. There will be no power vacuum. I will now personally oversee the group's communication.""
"Bibliography Four major works Michel BATTIAU, One of the consequences of the restructuring of the textile industry: the birth of the Agache-Willot group, Lille, CERES Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Gérard BÉLORGEY, About Boussac, Memoirs and lessons, 2 vols. Conference given at the Cambacérès Circle, published by Calaméo. Archives available at the National Foundation of Political Sciences. Benoît BOUSSEMART and Jean-Claude Rabier, The Agache-Willot File. A capitalism against the current, Paris, Presses de la Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques, 1983. Patrick LAMM, Investigation on the Boussac affair, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1985. Other information sources Bernard Arnault, The Creative Passion. Interviews with Messarovitch, Paris, Plon, 2000. Michel BATTIAU, The Textile Industries of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, Paris, Librairie Honoré Champion, 1976. Alain BOUBLIL, The Uprising of the Seraglio, Paris, Albin Michel, 1990. Dominique COCHART-COSTE and Jean-Paul GRUMETZ, Saint Frères. Paternalism and its memories, Amiens, CEFRESS-Université de Picardie-Jules-Verne, 2007. Jean-Dominique Delaveau, I am Marcel Boussac and I hunt in Mivoisin, Dammary-sur-Loing, Interstices and Editions de l’Écluse, 2009. François Faraut, The History of La Belle Jardinière, Paris, Belin, 1987. Nadège Forestier and Nazanine Pavai, Bernard Arnault, or the Taste for Power, Paris, Olivier Orban, 1990. Christine Kerdellant, The New Condottieri, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1992. Marie-France Pochna, Good Morning Mr. Boussac, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1980. Pierre Pouchain, The Masters of the North. From the 19th e century to the present day, Paris, Perrin, 1998. Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, Secret History of the Black Files of the Left, Paris, Alain Moreau, 1987. Nazarine Ravai, The Republic of Vanities, Paris, Grasset, 1997. Airy Routier, The Exterminating Angel, Paris, Albin Michel, 2003."