The Poor Pastry Boy Who Invented L’Oréal Paris

Eugène Paul Louis Schueller was born in Paris in 1881. The son of two hard-working pastry shop owners, he was growing up to be an exceptionally studious and ambitious young man. He not only earned top grades in all his classes, but he also got up early to help his parents prepare the pastries. Every, single, day. A relatively unspectacular beginning for someone destined to build one of the world’s greatest fortunes…
After finishing his Baccalauréat degree, which is roughly equivalent to two years of college, Eugène entered the Institute of Applied Chemistry in 1900. Once again, he succeeded brilliantly and finished first in his class. Following his graduation in 1904, he took a position as a laboratory assistant at the Sorbonne. It seemed like he was mapping out a career as a university researcher. But while that was highly respectable, it was hardly lucrative.
Then something happened that would change the course of his life forever…
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Amazing story, thanks.

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amazing video!

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Why is this channel not more popular, such great content ! The French pronunciation is not explanation enough 😅

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Very nice thanks

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Wow just wow 🤩

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I worked for this beautiful global company and I loved every minute of it! I was even an in -house L’Oreal hair model. Loved this video. Thank you💕💕💕💕

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why have you left 🙄

[@mauraronda1265]

@@dwaynejohnson8606 too old. Lol

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I assumed you had a wonderful time working with the company! How are you today?

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Much success and health to all. I like Maybelline mascaras and some Garnier products. I probably use other loreal products too.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

Eugene was such a handsome man. His products are still a big deal in 2022. Wow!

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You should do a video about the brands that succeeded bc they worked with the nazis It's a common theme

[@VanessaCampbell01]

can you do a video on how Estee Lauder was invented please.

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How about the shipping conglamerat Mærsk?

[@elianah2874]

I LOVE to find out about how businesses like LOREAL got started and by who. Could you have a video about the history of COVERGIRL, MAYBELLINE and REVLON?

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Hey, concentrate on story.

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If you are interested I have Covergirl and Revlon history videos.

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All Classic family

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My favorite brand

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It would be a big mistake if they don't drop amber.

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Know that seasing started here it says.

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formal L'Oreal spray2 obviously

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Pandora and Swarovski

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L'or est al !!!

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Here, after watching the netflix show lol

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Do more cosmetics company

[@anastasia10017]

OMG the narrator butchers every French word in every video.

[@pilotreg]

its not actually narrated

[@minastirith997]

I want to assume according to his last name he was jewish of german descent? couldn’t find any information about him just that he was the founder of the company thats it.

[@balmecosmeticos6743]

German.

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Loreal owns lancôme

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That's not new, since 1964...

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L'OREAL Lady here ..For life

[@patrickderp1044]

incredibly based person born in a palindrome year

[@jjorgelaffargue]

Lilianne era hija de Andre Bettencourt no de Schueller. Bettencourt era una de los mayores accionistas y.porntal motivo pasó a ser el líder y luego Lilianne de L'Oréal. Al menos es mo qntenia entendido

[@lidijabrkljacic5431]

I really would like to watch this video, but the pronunciation of the French is like nails on a chalkboard, I can't.

[@jeremyc6827]

I have to beg to differ, the products are overwhelmingly lousy and cynical.

[@rasheawhite3644]

🙃👀... Ladies where is your ego now?😉

[@edq5168]

The French pronunciation is just atrocious, can this be redubbed?

[@mortenmoicmoigladys1236]

Please don't try to speak french...it's too painfull!!!

[@foreverseethe]

00:44 "unspectacular beginning"I beg to differ. 1st in class and straight A's is spectacular indeed. The emotional stability, parent involvement/encouragement, and affinity and drive to handle the workload is a privilege. So the clickbait "a poor pastry boy" is obviously false, not least because a university education at the turn of the 20th century is for the absolutely privileged. Not to take away from his impressive sounding work ethic but it sounds like he was always aristocratic. One last thing: you may disagree but women should never compete with men, in anything. 1. It's never a fair fight. 2. If men lose, everybody loses.

[@ladyparmelee1003]

The sloppy French pronunciation is ruining this excellent content. It's disrespectful to speakers of the language. I can only hope this is an AI narrator in need of tweaking.

[@niklaslife7384]

this is lowkey the most french thing i've ever heard 😭

[@fridaclaxton]

Lame. Who cares?

[@V3R0N1CA0328]

I don’t think it’s important as much as you suggest but it does make me laugh so much lol

[@1015SaturdayNight]

I hate AI narration