François-Marie Banier

François -Marie Banier (* June 27, 1947 in Paris ) is a French writer, photographer and film actor.

Life

François -Marie Banier was born in 1947 in Paris. His father had immigrated from Hungary and banker, his mother came from Italy. He grew up in the 16th Arrondissement (Paris). At age 17, he broke the school at the Lycée Janson de Sailly from without school and at 20 he moved out of the parental home aus.In his autobiographical novel Balthazar, son of good family, who was released in 1985, Banier describes his difficult childhood.

In 1969 he published Les Residences secondaires, a short novel about a man's friendship. The work was praised and made ​​him known in French literature and celebrity scene. One contributing factor was that it the friendship of the painter Salvador Dali enjoyed since 1964, was from 1967 Spokesman of the fashion designer Pierre Cardin and the writer Louis Aragon raved about him. Le Passé composé followed in 1971, a novel about a half-grown siblings.

Numerous celebrities have been photographed from Jetsetter Banier. These included, among others Isabelle Adjani, Samuel Beckett, Johnny Depp, Vladimir Horowitz, Silvana Mangano, Joyce Carol Oates, Caroline of Monaco, Sophie Marceau, Natalia Vodianova. He was several photo books publish. A career highlight as a photographer was in 1991 by the French President François Mitterrand supported exhibition of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris for him.

1969 met Banier for the first time 25 years old Liliane Bettencourt, principal shareholder, the French cosmetics company L' Oréal. 1987 later he made for the photo journal Égoïste a series of shots of her and then their relationship intensified. In December 2008 it was announced that she had given him between 2001 and 2007 nearly one billion euros in the form of paintings, Real Estate, Checks and life insurance. Bettencourt had originally also used him as heir, but she made it again in September 2010 reversed.

Works (selection)

Novels

• Les Residences secondaires.Grasset, 1969.
• Le Passé composé. Grasset, 1971.
• La tête la première. Grasset, 1972.
• Balthazar, fils de famille. Gallimard, 1985. Balthazar, the son of a good family. From the French by Tobias Scheffel and Claudia Steinitz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-968-8.

Photo Books

• Past- Present, München, 1996 ISBN 3-88814-853-7.
• Perdre la tête, 2006, ISBN 3-86521-234-4.
• Vive la Vie. Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-821-6.