so what girl can refuse a day in paris at van cleefe & arpels?i go, and actually i should say there were no little blue boxes but passed under the table, but i came away with something much more important for a biographer, a story, story about this woman. so she was running the company at the time that the nazis occupied and because the nazis insisted that all jewish businesses had to barianized, that is handed over to a christian, she thought she could be one step ahead of the occupying forces and she handed over the paris branch to anarian, then she took a suitcase of stock down to vichy, and she thought that she would be okay. she's be protected. she thought she was thoroughly assimilated. was part of her battle in order van cleefe & arpels were constantly rivals of her and her belief was if they were thoroughly assimilated, and if nobody knew they were jewish, they would be okay. and she thought she'd be protected vichy because she knew the ministers, and the wives and mistresses of her hers. she was okay, and the business flourished until de