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Guido Erreygers wrote: 
 
> I do not think there is anything obscure to the use of 
> "laisser faire" instead of "laissez faire". The French 
> themselves have used it frequently for a long time. 
 
At http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa123099.htm we find the comment 
 
> In instructions or other impersonal commands, the infinitive  
> is often used as an imperative 
 
This matches my (faded) memory of French grammar and my (somewhat less faded) memory of
the signs around Paris.
 
Alan Isaac 
 
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