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It was an early dinner by Parisian standards, 8.40 pm, on a mild spring evening at Prunier, an opulent seafood restaurant near the Arc de Triomphe. Amid the hum of conversation, the cracking of shellfish and the gentle chinking of glasses, Yves Bigot missed the insistent ringing. “Then I saw — multiple missed calls, SMS messages, emails, the whole shebang,” he recalls. “Both my phones were going berserk.”

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