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Rich Places Rich
"The family’s patriarch and matriarch keep a low profile, splitting their time between a large, lavishly furnished apartment on Paris' famous Left Bank and a 6,000 acre estate in the sought-after Loire Valley."
—Don't you think there's something going wrong over at Forbes when they decide they have to apply descriptors to "Left Bank" and "Loire Valley"?
I'd say that Forbes has correctly judged the intellectual dimensions of their readers. It's quite possible that the writer him- or herself might have had to look up 'Left Bank' and 'Loire Valley', or get the word around the office from some elderly hipster. This is a reason, magazines, not to automatically fire everyone over 38! You might want to keep a few around.
And yet, they just know we'll feel a twinge or recognition when we come across the name Radziwill: "Isabelle d’Ornano also comes from aristocratic stock, descended from Poland’s Queen Barbara Radziwill (yes, that Radziwill — her uncle was Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ brother-in-law)."
I'm actually kind of surprised they didn't say "Paris, France."
I thought the Forbes line was that since Hollande's election every French person who's not on welfare is fleeing the country post haste?