Mivoisin

"Pater familias in the Roman sense of the term, Boussac has so far enlarged his house by drawing from his connections or by hiring a relative or friend duly recommended. This is true at all levels of his business. As a rule, he trusts people whose father he has known: thus the son of Pierre Forgeot is engaged in the advertising department; the son of his friend, Senator Etienne Dailly, is at the head of the agricultural operations dependent on Mivoisin, and the son of Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Rémi, is appointed director of the Rousseau establishments."

"No more than rest, he doesn’t need good meals. He has lunch on a corner of his desk with two lamb chops that arrive at the same time as him, in the morning, from Neuilly, in an iron container that the chauffeur, wearing white gloves, is tasked with carefully bringing to the person responsible for grilling them at the appropriate time, on a stove intended for this use. Boussac finishes this meal in a quarter of an hour with a biscuit accompanied by a spoonful of Mivoisin jam, stored in a jar that he goes to fetch himself from a shelf in his cupboard. This jam is reserved for him. If he happens to receive someone during his lunch, he always takes care to offer a jar of another kind to the guest, who generally knows that it is polite to refuse. One is not there to waste time."