france industry

- bank

• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aab91d30-435a-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97d.html Four years after François Hollande — then soon to be elected French president — stigmatised the “world of finance” as his “true adversary”, France is rolling out the red carpet for bankers. His socialist government is now leading the pack of EU countries seeking to lure highly paid London bankers looking for a home when the UK leaves the bloc. On Wednesday, it unveiled a list of carrots for executives considering Paris for their new base, including a hefty income tax break of up to 50 per cent and the right to exclude foreign properties and assets from the calculation of wealth tax for eight years — up from five years currently.

- supermarket

• Two of France’s biggest supermarket groups were locked in a dispute on Monday after Casino (CASP.PA) said it had rejected a tie-up approach from larger rival Carrefour (CARR.PA) that Carrefour denied ever making.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-m-a-carrefour/casino-rejects-merger-approach-that-carrefour-denies-making-idUSKCN1M40GA

- food

• http://www.franceagroalimentaire.com/en/actualite-agro/france-organic-sector-increase-exports-2014/

- agriculture

• http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150722/00180_020.html 法國一批農民為抗議牛豬肉及乳品市價過低，周一起以數百架農業用拖拉機堵塞諾曼第地區的主要道路，連通往觀光勝地聖米歇爾山（Mont Saint-Michel）的路也被堵塞。農民要求政府盡快行動，總統奧朗德則稱，今天的內閣會議將討論挽救農民生計的緊急計劃。
• http://sputniknews.com/business/20150726/1025060268.html According to the head of the French pig breeding federation, French pork producers lose 20 euro cents ($0,22) per kilogram of production because of the Russian food embargo.
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11765436/French-farmers-block-lorries-from-Germany-and-Spain.html French farmers have set up roadblocks on the German and Spanish borders to stop lorries carrying foodstuff from entering the country in their latest protest against falling food prices. Up to 300 trucks carrying produce destined for the French market have been turned back in the Alsace region in the northeast since the blocks were set up on Sunday evening, said Franck Sander, president of the local branch of the powerful FNSEA farmers’ union.

- forestry

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-china-oak/chinas-love-affair-with-oak-a-mixed-blessing-for-france-idUSKCN1J30FU Exports of oak logs have soared and so have prices, largely because of demand from China. Beijing banned commercial timber harvests last year and Chinese millennials have developed a taste for high-quality wooden floors and furniture from Europe. But boom for France’s exporters could mean bust for some of the country’s 550 sawmills. French oak producers have traditionally sold oak logs to the mills, which then cut them into lumber for making products ranging from floors and furniture to coffins and wine barrels. But now, private forest owners have started selling logs directly to Chinese buyers because they are ready to pay higher prices and do the processing themselves. This has left many French sawmills short of wood to process and struggling to fulfill orders.

- energy

• Changing of the guard at the top of the French energy sector http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b3e1a06-70cd-11e4-8113-00144feabdc0.html
• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-03/08/content_23778241.htm France is to close its oldest nuclear power plant, which is at the center of a rowwith neighboring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green ministersaid on Sunday. "The timeline is one the president has repeated to me several times, it's 2016," saidEmmanuelle Cosse, who joined President Francois Hollande's Cabinet last month,referring to the Fessenheim plant. Cosse was speaking to French media after a row sparked on Friday when Germanydemanded that France close down Fessenheim following reports that a 2014incident was worse than earlier portrayed.

- national defence

• http://www.economist.com/news/business/21698662-booming-exports-lift-spirits-gallic-defence-firms-going-great-guns

- tapestry

• The Manufacture des Gobelins is a tapestry factory located in Paris, France, at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near the Les Gobelinsmétro station in the 13th arrondissement. It is best known as a royal factory supplying the court of the French monarchs since Louis XIV and is now run by the Administration générale du Mobilier national et des Manufactures nationales de tapis et tapisseries of the French Ministry of Culture. The factory is open for guided tours several afternoons per week by appointment as well as for casual visits every day except Mondays and some specific holidays. The Galerie des Gobelins is dedicated to temporary exhibitions of tapestries from the French manufactures and furnitures from the Mobilier national, build in the gardens by Auguste Perret in 1937.The Gobelins were a family of dyers who, in the middle of the 15th century, established themselves in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel (fr), Paris, on the banks of the Bièvre.A branch of the manufactory was established in London probably in the early 18th-century in the area that is now Fulham High Street. Around 1753 it appears to have been taken over by the priest and adventurer, Pierre Parisot, but closed only a few years later.
• The Beauvais tapestry manufacture was the second in importance, after the Gobelins tapestry, of French tapestry workshops that were established under the general direction of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister of Louis XIV. Whereas the royal Gobelins manufacture executed tapestries for the royal residences and for ambassadorial gifts, the manufacture at Beauvais always remained a private enterprise.^[1]Beauvais specialised in low-warp tapestry weaving, though the letters patent of 1664, authorising the company and offering royal protection, left the field open for the production of high-warp tapestry as well.The first entrepreneur, Louis Hinard, a native of Beauvais who had already established workshops in Paris, produced unambitious floral and foliate tapestries called verdures and landscape tapestries, which are known through chance notations in royal accounts. He was arrested for his debts in 1684, and the workshops were refounded more successfully under Philippe Behagle, a merchant tapestry-manufacturer from Oudenarde, who had also worked in the traditional tapestry-weaving city of Tournai. Behagle's first successes were a suite of Conquests of the King which complemented a contemporaneous Gobelins suite showing episodes in the Life of the King, without directly competing with them. A suite of Acts of the Apostles, following copies of Raphael's cartoons, are in the cathedral of Beauvais. The so-called Teniers tapestries, in the manner of village scenes painted by David Teniers the Younger, began to be woven under Behagle and continued popular, with up-dated borders, into the eighteenth century, when the earliest series of archives begin.

• After his father's death from influenza in 1930, Hubert de Givenchy was raised by their mother and maternal grandmother,^[7] Marguerite Dieterle Badin (1853–1940), the widow of Jules Badin (1843–1919), an artist who was the owner and director of the historic Gobelins Manufactory and Beauvais tapestry factories.