Not news you might think. But Agence France Presse (AFP), France's major press agency, did actually announce the death of the industrialist yesterday, based they said on information received from a neighbouring maire . The name is more familiar to most of us via the eponymous mobile telephone network, but Martin Bouygues is also head of a major BTP (batir, travaux publics) building firm and the premature announcement of his death could have had stock market implications. Happily it appears that "reports of his death are exaggerated" and he is alive and well (as is the boulanger of Laguepie).
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