In front of a bank covered in graffiti, on the sidelines of the Block Everything movement protest, in Toulouse, September 10, 2025. When was the last time company heads launched an operation like the one announced on Tuesday, September 23, by the MEDEF, France's main employers' federation? Perhaps not since December 14, 1982, when Yvon Gattaz, then known as the "boss of bosses," gathered 20,000 executives to protest against the policies of President François Mitterrand, a Socialist. "We must assert [our] essential contribution to the public good," said Patrick Martin, the MEDEF's president, on Tuesday, at event held by the public bank Bpifrance. And it has provoked a spectacular uproar, far beyond the 1,800 ultra-rich who would have to pay it.