Two weeks ago, the group withdrew from the French auction process, saying the licence prices were too high.
The decision - a preliminary step in the French judicial process - was made by two examining judges, pursuing a series of related corruption cases, who questioned him at his home near Bordeaux in southwest France.
French actor Gerard Depardieu managed to stay in the headlines this week, outraging the French government in the process and continuing to declare that he is not leaving France permanently for tax reasons.
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That new store will be filled with finely wrought homewares and elegant clothes, including sculptural dresses made from hand-felted cashmere in a centuries-old process typical of the French house's attention to detail.
The French, having invented and mastered the process are rightly territorial about the whole business.
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On August 15th 1944, the Germans, of whom there were still thousands in Paris, had already begun to distrust the French police, and were in the process of disarming them.
Some 3, 400 people from across the French film industry took part in the voting process to determine this year's nominations.
Patrice Hagelauer, the technical director of the French Tennis Federation, said France is in the process of devaluing rankings for young players.
The Bush Administration should gently prod Prime Minister Tony Blair to begin the necessary process of deflating and derailing this misbegotten French initiative.
It is now in the process of doing the same with its French, Austrian and German subsidiaries, although it may take years before they are fully integrated.
At the other Alstom, a French concern, has 18 months to test the ammonium-carbonate process.
"German-French ties under Mitterrand became a formative factor in the European unification process, " added German Finance Minister Theo Waigel.
While engaged in his own process, he takes inspiration from all quarters, including the French film Camille Claudel, saturated in his favorite greens and blues, and, most recently, Shampoo.
And the really silly thing is that if they try to change the French laws then in a couple of years time, once the appeals process is finished, the European Court will tell them that their changes are inconsistent with EU law.
The commission has always been the policy initiator of European integration, but the French and Dutch referendums in the spring have called a halt to that entire process.
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President Hollande has pledged French forces won't leave until Mali has security, legitimate authorities, an electoral process and no more terrorism.
After a five-year process, regulators have said the European Pressurised Reactor, designed by two French firms, is safe and environmentally sound.
Some Central and Eastern European applicants suspect that the French are lukewarm about bringing in new members and would be quite happy if Cyprus blocked the process.
LaCie will initiate the information and consultation process required by its employee representative council in relation to the contemplated transaction, in accordance with French law.
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Ashland, in the process of refocusing its business on mining, made a deal to sell its interest to a small French operator.
This process seems bound to lead to eventual merger, perhaps within three years, to coincide with the French government's sale of its 44% stake in Renault.
"We want to make clear that the enlargement process is irreversible, " a German government source told Reuters after talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
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