No, but several barons of French business may feel they are being dragged towards a judicial abyss.
The company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2010, becoming the first French business to do so.
The highly-regarded French business school, INSEAD, hosted an executive roundtable on Business and Biodiversity: The Next Sustainability Challenge.
Take for example, the coaching undertaken by Christophe Haag, an associate professor at the French business school, EM Lyon.
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EDHEC, a French business school, diversification is another powerful reason why institutions think they should invest in hedge funds.
Most French business leaders don't think that the government is deliberately targeting them.
Mr Arnault has since broken every convention, both in French business and in the cosseted world of luxury goods.
At French business school INSEAD, EMBA course directors point to an international focus as a common characteristic held by participants.
"We no longer want Arcelor Mittal in France because they didn't respect France, " Arnaud Montebourg told French business daily Les Echos.
He sold his French business and checked out to move it elsewhere.
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They, and the board seats they bring with them, assure him honour and influence across the French business establishment and the Belgian one too.
"If this expanded version was launched, Air France-KLM could order a significant amount, " Spinetta was quoted as saying by the French business daily La Tribune.
The case stretches back to 1993 when Mr Tapie, a colourful, controversial character in the French business world, sold his stake in sports company Adidas to Credit Lyonnais.
The company also cannot allow the whole plant to be sold as its supply chain in France would be severely affected, putting the entire French business in jeopardy.
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French business conditions were downbeat in January, while the overall business PMI for the Euro zone showed contraction, but at the slowest rate of contraction in 10 months.
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Those rejected candidates now stare forlornly from old campaign posters on the streets of Lille - but their ideas remain very much a part of French business culture.
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Embarrassing, too, in that Mr de Castries, at 46, is just the sort of modern-minded internationalist that French business schools might choose as a role model for their students.
The commission also expresses concerns about the competitiveness of French business and of exports, which shrank by almost 20% as a share of global exports between 2005 and 2010.
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According to the French business newspaper La Tribune, the family is now sick of the speculation and the impact its been having on the share price, that they want to take it private.
Mr Tapie, who has long been active in French business, sporting and political circles, sued Credit Lyonnais over its handling of the sale in 1993 of sportswear brand Adidas, in which he was a majority stakeholder.
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In a report published Thursday by the World Economic Forum and the French business school INSEAD, Sweden placed first in a global ranking of countries in terms of their readiness for tech business, compared with a second place ranking in 2009.
First: Le Huffington Post will be a joint venture with The HuffingtonPost Media Group, Le Monde and the French entrepreneur Mathieu Pigasse (also a partner of Le Monde, owner of the French news magazine Les Inrockuptibles, and advisor to the Greek government, according to the editor-in-chief of the French business newspaper La Tribune, Jacques Rosselin).
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Kraft's intentions are far less certain, after it sold its French gum business to Cadbury in 2000.
Some people may just want to know what it takes to ski in France, others may want to know French end-to-end, others may need a refresher on French for business.
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In 2008, Dubai-based DP World won a 25-year contract to expand and operate the port in the capital city, Dakar, which had been a major stopover for the French shipping business since the 1800s.
Chirac is due to meet French and Russian business leaders and students at Moscow University on Tuesday.
Art is a business, but if the French movie industry were to be managed as a real business two things would happened: First, based on business forecasts and ROI, only one out of 10 French movies would actually be funded, meaning that 90 percent of the present French production would never make it into the theaters.
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But a committee set up to discuss improving the teaching of economics and business to French schoolchildren was disbanded after a few years.
The distinction is further emphasized by the limits the French government puts on business hours, a curb on individual liberty almost unheard of in the United States.
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