sentences:  Seillière is close to the Traditionalist Catholics, in particular of the "abbé Laguérie".He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and participated in all their conferences between 1979 and 1987 as well as 1992 and 2002.In 1990 and 2000 he was one of the top big linkers in the French corporate network 
  
  He succeeded Jean Gandois as leader of the CNPF in December 1997, after the dismissal of the appeal for cut in 35 hours by the Socialist government.