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Raoul Salomon Meyer (30 June 1892 in Villefranche-sur-Saône – 14 June 1970 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French businessman and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who directed the Galeries Lafayette group.

Biography

Raoul Meyer was the son-in-law of Théophile Bader, the head of Galeries Lafayette, whose eldest daughter Yvonne he married. After participating in the Resistance and the Liberation of Paris, he took charge of Galeries Lafayette on September 20, 1944, until 1970.

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He is the grandfather of Rabbi David Meyer.

Raoul Meyer and his wife had an adopted daughter Léone-Noëlle Meyer, whose biological family was murdered in the Holocaust.^[1] She became the mother of Rabbi David Meyer.

Nazi era

During the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, Les Galeries Lafayette underwent a process of "Aryanization", that is the removal of Jewish owners and their replacement by non-Jewish owners.^[2][3] Théophile Bader, Raoul Meyer, Max Heilbronn, th