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...audience was Jean-Noël Grandval, who along with colleague Alexandre Dayon left Business Objects in 1999 to start InStranet. Its "enterprise information exchange software" helps companies become more efficient. Like Business Objects, which invested in this start-up, InStranet moved sales and management to the U.S., leaving research and development behind in Paris. Other entrepreneurs are thinking even more broadly. Take Arisem, a knowledge management company based in Paris. It told potential investors in a prospectus handed out during the Tech Tour that it wants to emulate France?s Vivendi Universal for its corporate strategy, Germany...
...crucial issue was Morocco, and there, Faure's carom shots had brought the crisis on himself. Three months ago he had sent Gilbert Grandval to Morocco to devise a plan. Grandval did. But when diehard colonists objected, Faure reacted characteristically. He adopted the plan and fired the man who devised...
...Replace Grandval. whom the French colons detest, with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, the successful Resident General of Tunisia...
Spontaneous Evaporation. Landing at Rabat a few hours after Grandval had been ousted, the new French Resident General, General de Latour, took up his command in Morocco. He went to the Sultan's palace to present his respects to the man he had come to fire, Ben Moulay Arafa. Bands played, and the Sultan's honor guard shuffled to attention as the lean Frenchman climbed the stairs to the throne room where Arafa sat waiting. "Everyone desires to see the spirit of friendship reign," said De Latour, looking uncomfortable. Replied the Sultan, peering uneasily: "We would be happy...
France's new Resident General in Morocco, replacing Gilbert Grandval: four-star Lieut. General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, 59, the 14th man in 43 years to hold the difficult job. He is often referred to as General Boyer de Latour...