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...No expense was spared for the premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Thésée in early 1675....
...When Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin of Parisian design studio Antoinette Poisson first travelled to Port-Louis in Brittany three years ago, they had no intention of relocating....
...Jean-Baptiste Huet and Jean Pillement, leading artists of the day, were commissioned to produce designs. Interestingly, of the 30,000 pieces in the archive only 100 depict conventional Arcadian scenes....
...With Alice unable to prove anything to the police, Rob begins his seduction of a new mark: the wealthy, widowed fantasy novelist Cheryl Harker (Marianne Jean-Baptiste)....
...Owner Jean-Baptiste Humbert, who founded the store with his ex-wife Patricia Kirkland, grew up in France and was first introduced to wines made with little or no intervention by his parents....
...Round on the Links The link was TV crime shows Jean-Baptiste The Bodyguard A View from the Bridge Vera Brittain Martin Luther King Dexter Shetland pony General Strike The Fall The Killing Fields...
...French law firm Gide has hired Marcus Billam, Jean-Baptiste de Martigny and Alexandre Durand as M&A partners in Paris. They were previously at Darrois Villey Maillot....
...“We have had big development of stores all over the world in the past four years,” says chief executive Jean-Baptiste Sassine, Messika’s husband, whom she met when both were working for her father....
...Brigitte Macron expressed indignation and support for Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, who “had the courage to confront the cowardice, stupidity and violence of the group” of the attackers....
...The 17th-century French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert famously called taxation the art of plucking the goose to secure the largest amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing....
...Besides sketches, ledgers and drawings, it also comprises display cases by Fourdinois, a cabinetmaker from the mid-1800s, and the Marmotte — the trunk that Jean-Baptiste Mellerio wore on his back when selling...
...“They can lick their wounds,” said Jean-François Lambert, a commodities banker turned consultant....
...The botanical pieces from the past – especially the 19th century – continue to inspire; the Pensée collection is rooted in an extraordinary pansy tiara created during the 1850s by Jean-Baptiste Fossin, who...
...However, the media hoo-ha of recent days makes clear that the chancellor is not taking the advice of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister....
...The heritage-listed Hôtel Danckaert, designed in 1922 by the Belgian architect Jean-Baptiste Dewin, is Art Deco in style rather than Art Nouveau, but has been newly adopted as the home of contemporary Brussels...
...Historically found in the same locations as ruby, it was mistaken for that stone for centuries until being identified by French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle as a different gem in the late...
...Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon is in a most unusual position....
...Among their 17 items that sold for more than €1mn — up from seven last year — was Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s delicious “Le panier de fraises des bois” (1761), which made an artist record of €24.4mn in...
...parties between 265 and 305 seats in the assembly, against 140 to 180 for the left-green coalition known as Nupes — the New Ecological and Social Popular Union — brought together by far-left politician Jean-Luc...
...Among the best-respected dealers was Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun: husband to the celebrated portrait painter (and friend and favourite of Marie Antoinette) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, he sold his wares...
...Over one recent weekend in Port-au-Prince, Éric Jean Baptiste, a prominent politician, and his bodyguard were murdered by gangsters while driving through the capital in an armoured car....
...But French governments more regularly followed the approach pioneered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s first minister, who believed the state should support and protect the nation’s industries....
...items include some fine art, with a bronze bust of Joseph Conrad by Jacob Epstein (1924, est £5,000-£8,000) and, the catalogue’s cover lot, a rare portrait of “a young lady, a free person of colour” by Jean-Baptiste...
...He was influenced, as Hockett points out, by European thinkers and leaders like Jean-Baptiste Colbert and his ideas about nation building....
...Despite art dealer Adam Williams winning a still life by 18th-century artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin at auction for a record-breaking €24.3mn, his client might yet not end up with the picture, if the...
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