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Premier Franćois Legault is to begin an official six-day drip to France and Switzerland on Sunday.

He will take part in diplomatic and economic meetings in Paris until Tuesday. He will then travel to Davos to attend the 49th Economic Forum until Friday.

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The premier’s agenda suggests he will devote some of his trip to cultural undertakings. He is scheduled to meet with Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, who was elected to the Acadèmie française in 2013. They are to meet at Les Deux Magos, a café once frequented by the late French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

On Monday morning, Legault is to meet with his French counterpart, Édouard Philippe, and in the afternoon, with President Emmanuel Macron. This will be Legault’s first meeting with Philippe; he had already met with Macron in Yerevan, Armenia, during last October’s Summit of La Francophonie.

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On Tuesday, Legault will attend a luncheon conference whose theme will be on fostering commercial relations between Quebecers and their “cousins” in France. Legault is to deliver a speech at the luncheon on the need to intensify commercial relations while showing the Quebec government’s openness to foreign investors.