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...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...Touitou says that APC’s revenues have surpassed €100mn and the aim is to double sales in the next three years under longtime executives François-Cyrille de Rendinger, newly appointed president, and Joël...
...Everywhere you look there are treasures being reinstated, from the trompe l’oeil mounted canvases in the Palais de la Découverte that had previously been hidden, where a grisaille technique gives the appearance...
...L’hôtel de Maisons, however, wasn’t the first choice....
...Maison François, London Until 17 April, fans of François O’Neill’s French-style St James’s brasserie can celebrate spring with a playful “Cochon de Pâques” – a limited-edition Easter egg in the shape of...
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...He deserves the title “blouson king”, but his name is virtually unknown beyond a small circle of initiates permitted to enter his atelier on the Quai de Valmy....
...Creativity flowed in every way; Hugo’s writing at Hauteville House included novels Les Travailleurs de la Mer [Toilers of the Sea] and L’Homme Qui Rit [The Man Who Laughs], and poetry....
...Pierre Etcheberry, who leads the Domaine de l’Île estate wine project after relocating with his young family, describes it as “both the ultimate opportunity and challenge”....
...Hôtel de la Boétie opened last month on Rue la Boétie, a block and a half off the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement – a very tony address, where the hotel’s excellent value (rates start at €250) marks...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...l’Atlantique....
...Last week, Kering named Italian designer Sabato de Sarno as Gucci’s new creative director....
...The best paper on this is probably Jean-François L’Her, Rossitsa Stoyanova, Kathryn Shaw, William Scott, and Charissa Lai’s paper “A Bottom-Up Approach to the Risk-Adjusted Performance of the Buyout Fund...
...“In my defence,” he notes in his memoir L’Envers du décor, “nobody in government was interested in the subject.”...
...Decades before François-Paul Journe and Denis Flageollet became stars of independent watchmaking, the men behind the FP Journe and De Bethune brands worked side-by-side at Techniques Horlogères Appliquées...
...In 1970, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that society treated the old person as a “piece of rubbish” with “miserable” living standards....
...The sofa is where the duo first started discussing the just-released album De l’amour mais quelle drôle d’idée (Love, but what a funny idea): a gorgeous spoken-verse collection that ruminates on love, loss...
...with local restaurants such L’Arcane to pair teas with food Website; Directions In a corner of Montmartre tourists often neglect to explore is this charming neighbourhood tea boutique....
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
...Now Marcel Proust, La fabrique de l’oeuvre, just launched at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to mark the centenary of the writer’s death, unfolds both the making of the text and, exhilaratingly...
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...As they filed onstage with the air of off-duty gilets jaunes, François Cizzko Tousch played the closing accordion arpeggios of “La Valse”....
...l’Ormarine, Picpoul de Pinet is typical of the appellation and a canny fit for the restaurant, where it’s employed as a friendly session wine....
...One day in the late 1980s Maryvonne Pinault, wife of tycoon François, was leaving the Louvre when the ever-gallant Hubert de Givenchy offered his arm and walked her to her car....
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