There was a slightly different feel to the gathering of more than 100 guests at a subtly sumptuous reception in the Bois de Boulogne district of Paris last week.
For one thing they all knew each other either directly or as the stuff of industry legend. Many of them also professed to have retired from the gas business but this claim was often uttered with a devilish twinkle in the eye, implying they had not entirely given up the chase.
They
