** FILE ** This is a February 8, 1993 file photo of the then president of the French Senate, Rene Monory, during a visit to Bonn Germany Rene Monory, a French auto mechanic-turned-statesman who championed mutual funds and made it easier for employees to own shares in their companies, died Saturday April 11, 2009, a regional official said. Monory was 85. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)