When Lotto millionaires engage - March 4, 2010
Richard and Sandrine (the names have been changed at their request) won 7 million euros in the Lotto in 2006. Four years later, their children are still unaware. When they won their gold mine, Sandrine was a salesgirl in a shoe shop and Richard worked in a creperie. They told their children they had bought a large house with swimming pool after having sold the shoe shop and creperie. Too young to understand, children do not ask. For them, life goes on almost as before. Mother stopped working to care for them and dad bought a brewery. They have discovered the joys of Club Med. But last summer, the whole family left in a bed 4 stars for the holidays. However, Richard and Sandrine have totally changed their lifestyle. When they go in love, they no longer hesitate to go down to George V, a Parisian palace.They are both offered a Rolex to 10,000 euros. And the clothes they no longer count. "The first month, we renewed our wardrobe, for 40,000 euros each," says Sandrine. But we do not buy brands of haute couture. "
Desire reasonable
Both sociologists Michel and Monique Pin?on Pin?on-Charlot, who for decades decipher the habits and customs of old and newly rich, have addressed these Lotto winners have become millionaires overnight. For two years they have interviewed about thirty. The couple in the town and the university gives his analysis this week in an opus entitled "The lucky millionaires" (Editions Payot). Osculter the rich is their hobby. "We have worked twenty years on the inherited money and the wealthy dynasties, Michel told the figaro.fr Pin?on.Contrary to what the rumor is willing to believe, Lotto millionaires have reasonable desires. Overall, they are not fambleurs.
The first chapter of their book, "A catastrophe happy," the tone. For Pin?on, life really changes when the gain is at least 5 million euros. "The reflex, at least initially, is to keep the hidden gain," they write. Sandrine and Richard did not say otherwise …. Paradoxically, they agree to meet with journalists, but under a pseudonym. "There is a difficulty to keep the secret: silence, he is patron, is also frustrating, stress Pin?on Michel and Monique Pin?on-Charlot. Another problem: "Wealth can be learned, says Michel Pin?on. An heir, it is formed. Lotto millionaires have reflexes due to their origin. The Pin?on not met winners who "freaked out".There, but cases are rare as the French Games for which 99.9% are the big winners grow their bonanza.
Give a chance for everyone
How do they spend their money? According to the French, they begin to purchase their primary residence, they also invest in safe investments (life insurance) and put money aside for the education of children. "There's a sense of how generations of millionaires," welcomes does one service relationship of the French winners of the Games, to assist the winners when they discover a little (lot) their new wealth. "It's a bit early to tell, but there are people whose fortunes won the lottery will cross the bar of the 2nd generation", said Michel also Pin?on. Last year, 122 players have won the lotto more than one million euros.The record any class dates back to 2005: 75 million pocketed by a single person. "Lotto Magic is giving a chance for everyone because it is pure chance. It provides a gain that does not reward merit or effort, but not harm anyone, "said Michel Pin?on. He said for the humble people, is always happy, because money gives them satisfaction to which they aspired but which were inaccessible. "However, money does not provide absolute fullness, but it's much harder to be happy being poor!". Sandrine and Richard, at least, seem well in their new sneakers. "We were happy before winning the lottery is that the more" they insist both. This week, Sandrine has bought a new bag, Lancel model 1. 000. She knows she will soon have another.