Jean-Rene Fourtou, former vice-chairman of the Franco-German drugmaker
company Aventis, seen in this undated file photograph in Paris. Fourtou has
been proposed as the likely replacement of Jean-Marie Messier at the head of
the Vivendi Universal media empire after French boss Jean-Marie Messier
agreed to resign July 1, 2002 after a dramatic boardroom mutiny over his
embattled leadership of Vivendi Universal, an industry source said on Monday
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