Emmanuel Macron on Monday launched his latest operation to wrest business from post-Brexit Britain by calling on 140 global business leaders at Versailles Palace to “Choose France” in a speech in English – an unprecedented move for a French president on home soil.

The Gallic clarion call to woo the world’s captains of industry at Louis XIV’s gilded palace came amid far less glamorous reports that Paris is facing an invasion of rats in its most exclusive districts.

At the closed door summit in Versailles, Mr Macron addressed a string of CEOs, including those of Google, Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola and Chinese group JD.com, as well as Facebook’s number two, Sheryl Sandberg.

He was also due to hold…

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