The French President has invited the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his family to go to France, but stressed that he was not offering political exile.
So I went to the lab to talk to Manu's colleague Saad, to see how they apply their frugal science philosophy to this typically really expensive piece of equipment.
France has close links with Lebanon and Mr Macron's visit comes days after the prime minister, Saad Hariri, resigned while in Riyadh, prompting suspicions he was put under Saudi pressure.