French for Entrepreneur

ILLUSTRATION FOR TIME BY JON KRAUSE

Could the French fondness for a single job for life be giving away to a new spirit of entrepreneurialism? The number of new private businesses launched in France is soaring. June saw an all-time record, and figures in July were only slightly off that pace. French officials estimate that by the end of 2009 France will be about half a million new firms better off. In 2008 just 328,000 small companies were created, and in 2007 the figure was 321,000.

The fact that French private enterprise is surging in the middle of the world's worst economic crisis in...

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