The woman who said non to Sarkozy

摘要

Back in the old days, the chief of Medef, the French equivalent of our CBI, was a tough guy. He was le patron des patrons -the boss of the bosses - and he usually hailed from heavy industry. The last incumbent, Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, was the very model of the mighty alpha male - an entrepreneur and heir to the Wendel industrial empire, and an officer of the Legion d'honneur and the Ordre national du Merite. Then came Laurence Parisot.