The word "entrepreneur" may have gone missing from the French spirit, if not from its vocabulary, but the new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is determined to bring it back and has the legislature working overtime in a special session to do so.
His center-right government is slashing taxes and encouraging expansion of the 35-hour workweek. It's trying to mandate minimum services during France's frequent transportation strikes. In general, it's trying to make things easier and more profitable, particularly for the small and medium-size businesses that are the backbone of the French economy.
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