Francois Hollande created a rose. Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin sketched a proud rooster. French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand designed a palm-tree framed fantasy. And famed writer Umberto Eco drew a clown. The graffiti sketch-up wall provided a touch of whimsy at this year's high profile Forum de Liberation in Lyon - an event which Google was proud to help sponsor. McKinsey report we sponsored, the net contributed to 3.2% (EUR60 billion) to French GDP in 2009 (more than energy, transports or agriculture).agreement with the publisher Hachette Livre under which tens of thousands of French-language books will be provided with a digital afterlife. This means thousands of authors who have not profited from their books in years could finally see them become available once again. We also have forged partnerships with public European libraries, such as the Bavarian State Library or the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the Lyon library, making public-domain books so that their entire text is available for free to readers around the world.Posted by William Echikson, External Relations, Head of Free Expression Europe
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