Francis Bouygues

Francis Bouygues (1922–1993) was a French businessman and film producer. He founded the industrial company Bouygues in 1952 and ran until 1989, when his son Martin Bouygues succeeded him.

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    Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    —St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)