Union attacks French government over threat to Lakshmi Mittal's ArcelorMittal

Agencies : Paris, Thu Nov 29 2012, 20:16 hrs

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"I see the sans-culottes appear to have captured the government in Paris. The French minister has been so eccentric to call for a massive investment to depart from France," he said, during a visit to India.

"I have no hesitation in saying here, 'Venez à Londres, mes amis!' (Come to London, my friends)," he said. "Come to the business capital of the world."

The "sans-culottes," meaning without "knee breeches", were the most militant supporters of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.

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