Michel-Yves Bolloré

Michel-Yves Bolloré discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Michel-Yves Bolloré is an engineer and entrepreneur whose career spans industrial innovation and philanthropic investment in education. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieur de Toulouse and Paris-Dauphine University (Master of Science and Doctorate in Business Administration), he began his career in the family business, managing the Bolloré Group’s industrial division from 1981 to 1990. In 1990, he founded France Essor, an industrial group that led major ventures in mechanical engineering, and steel manufacturing.

Since relocating to London in 2011, he has focused on educational and cultural projects. He founded several schools, including The Laurels in London and Les Vignes in France. He is also a Knight of the Legion of Honor. His new book, co-written with Olivier Bonnassies, is God, Science, the Evidence, which is available at https://store.abramsbooks.com/products/god-the-science-the-evidence.

1. Sometimes major discoveries result from human errors, but in that case two errors are frequently better than one

2. Isabella of Spain’s decision to finance the Christopher Colombus project

3. The Middle Ages, incorrectly called “Dark Age”, has seen many crucial inventions which opened the door to a prosperous Renaissance Epoch: Example: invention of glasses, industrialization of paper manufacturing, creation of universities.

4. US scientists believe more frequently in the existence of God than people think.

5. Nature is more finely tuned than we think: an example with squirrels which luckily have a bad memory and a bad sight.

6. The origin of the word Palestine

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