Serge de pahlen biography books

John Elkann entered into view twenty minutes ahead of schedule, the tall, angular-faced forty-something stepping into the Parisian bookstore where he had arranged to meet us, a pink iPhone held to his ear.

He then browsed the shelves to purchase three books. At the very moment he was optimistically recommending a book about physics to us – “You'll find it accessible. My son read it.”–, the store manager came up to us. “Are you Alain's son ?” she asked.

The first historical account of this family dates to , when Johannes de Pala was Vogt at Turaida.

We'd been spotted. If he is, in her eyes, the son of Alain Elkann, an Italian writer, he is above all John Elkann, the head of the powerful Agnelli family. Especially for his compatriots. They all recognize his youthful features, his wavy mane, his careful phrasing.

“Elkann, can we take a picture ?” At the bookstore entrance, under the arcades of the rue Rivoli, he had been beckoned by Italian tourists. Dressed in jeans, white high-top sneakers, and a blue jacket with a sweater th