"Say, what did you see ?" asked Baudelaire in his famous poem " The Journey ". For five years he runs in Total, Patrick Pouyanné has criss-crossed the planet in every sense. What the French, outside, perhaps, of Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Yves Le Drian, meeting most of the heads of State and government for him ? "These are my clients," laughs Pouyanné.

It was known a few years ago, when he was in charge of the branch refining-chemistry in Total. He had to get back to profitability, hence its reputation as a restructurateur. Except that it isn't only that. At the end of 2014, after the acc...

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