According to Yves Berger of Interbev, large parts of the French countryside are maintained by small-scale farmers breeding draught horses for the meat market.
The French government called on Peugeot last year to scale back its plans.
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And gadgets such as a bathroom scale made by Withings, a French company, can transmit a person's weight to a digital health-log on a computer or smartphone.
Quake's technology "could allow biologists to do all sorts of things that we want to do that either aren't possible or are too time-consuming and expensive to do on a macroscopic scale, " says W. French Anderson , a gene therapy pioneer at the University of Southern California.
The industrial and French revolutions, which produced anxiety on a vast scale, saw De Quincey on opium, Coleridge on laudanum and Davy, in his chemical laboratory, giggling and whooping helplessly as he sniffed nitrous oxide gas.
France also has 3, 500 troops stationed in neighbouring countries - part of the long-standing military commitment to French-speaking Africa that recent governments have actually been promising to scale back.
The plan had the backing of the French government, but it was financed mostly through public subscription, the personal savings of thousands of ordinary French people who regarded de Lesseps as a hero on a Napoleonic scale.
Furthermore, closer co-operation between business schools is being encouraged by the French government, which is keen that the country develops more large-scale business schools to compete internationally.
But recognizing the scale of the mission to restore Mali's territorial integrity, French officials have indicated that some troops would stay in the country at least until July.
French officials earlier expressed reluctance to send troops to Mali, amid a broader vow to scale back their military involvement in Africa.
It is one of suspected bribery on a huge scale by Elf executives, who managed a sophisticated lobbying network on behalf of other French firms.
Cedric Hutchings, CEO of a French tech company called Withings, has been using his company's Wi-Fi-enabled scale to tweet his weight to friends.
Though its troops are posted in locations around Africa, French leaders earlier said they wouldn't send combat troops to Mali and that they'd scale back France's military interventions on the continent.
Scottish and Newcastle, Britain's biggest brewer, which brews Foster's lager in the UK and recently bought the French Kronenbourg brand, already has around 30% of the UK market, effectively ruling out a large-scale purchase such as Carling.
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