When six-year-old William Louis-Dreyfus saw a blind beggar in tinted glasses waving a tin cup on a Paris street, he emptied his pockets of coins for the man. William's wealthy grandmother looked on with disapproval. "You don't know if he was really blind," she scolded. "Even then, it struck me as the most extraordinary thing for someone to say," recalls Louis-Dreyfus. He then quotes the French writer Andre Gide, "God show his contempt for money by the quality of the people he bestows it on." Iro...
When six-year-old William Louis-Dreyfus saw a blind beggar in tinted glasses waving a tin cup on a Paris street, he emptied his pockets of coins for the man. William's wealthy grandmother looked on with disapproval. "You don't know if he was really blind," she scolded. "Even then, it struck me as the most extraordinary thing for someone to say," recalls Louis-Dreyfus. He then quotes the French writer Andre Gide, "God show his contempt for money by the quality of the people he bestows it on." Iro...
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