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...Departures Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oréal heiress, David Rockefeller; Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Helmut Kohl, Simone Veil, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Martin McGuinness, Manuel Noriega....
...Even the popularity of Manuel Valls, Mr Hollande’s hitherto well-regarded prime minister, has plummeted in recent months....
...“The situation is serious, the facts are serious,” said Manuel Valls, prime minister....
...The death of one of France’s most formidable criminal barristers, whose clients included Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel, has provoked intrigue....
...There was a bad tumble along the way – when he reported, wrongly, in 1991 that Gen Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian ruler, had secretly funded the French socialist party with drug money....
...After the Kerviel trial, he will be back in court in a case that pits Lilianne Bettencourt, France’s wealthiest woman thanks to her 31 per cent stake in L’Oréal, against her daughter, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers...
...During a lunch with 26 European leaders, he rowed with José Manuel Barroso, Commission president, in an exchange described by UK prime minister David Cameron as “very lively” – by other leaders as “aggressive...
...Bettencourt would know....
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