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...“I named him Alphonse after my grandfather,” she says. “I just have to see him and stroke him and it helps alleviate the stress.” Ntjam has sought Alphonse’s soothing presence a lot lately....
...The council — which includes Fritz Alphonse Jean, a former central bank governor, former senate president Edgard Leblanc, and insurance businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr — will also wield limited presidential...
...The article mentions the long history of glassmaking in Sunderland, and also the contribution made by European artists to British glassmaking, and cites the example of the 19th-century Frenchman Alphonse...
...As well as the shattered-glass piece – “one of the most meaningful pins in the sale” (with an estimate of $500-700) – she also highlights a silver owl in the style of turn-of-the-century Czech artist Alphonse...
...Some of the world’s wealthiest and most successful people were avid stamp collectors: from Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild to Freddie Mercury of Queen and, well, the late Queen, herself....
...Justice minister Charles Alphonse Wright told local radio that armed men took control of the Maison Centrale de Conakry, a heavily guarded federal prison, and freed Moussa Dadis Camara and the other suspected...
...The Glass Heart will also chart the contribution of European artists to British glassmaking, such as Frenchman Alphonse Lechevrel, who bought fresh finesse to cameo engraving — where coloured glass is carved...
...gilt-mounted objets de vertu such as needle-cases, perfume bottles and snuffboxes on show, the most extraordinary are those embellished with sumptuous jewelled and enamelled neo-renaissance mounts by Baron Alphonse...
...Alphonse Kaputo Kalubi ran the company for just over one year before Lukama took the reins in March. Lukama is tasked with drawing up a turnround plan, including reducing hefty pension liabilities....
...St François Atoll is the most southerly of three small islands that make up the Alphonse Group....
...There was Art Nouveau, with its sinuous lines and Alphonse Mucha posters (which so influenced Biba’s designs); there was Art Deco, and there was everything else, from African artefacts to Tibetan Buddhas...
...Their son, Baron Alphonse, with his wife (and cousin) Leonora, continued the collecting tradition....
...late 19th century across western Europe is often visually summed up in Paris’s iconic, curvy metro stations (designed by French architect Hector Guimard) or in the winsome, willowy women of Czech artist Alphonse...
...The London club wanted to negotiate the contract of goalkeeper Alphonse Areola. Meanwhile, other agents were trying to poach her players....
...The art collector and investor, who lives in China but visits Singapore frequently and owns property in the city, has more than 300 pieces from Czech artist Alphonse Mucha that he wants to set up for viewing...
...Pavlína chimes in: “My story is the same, the only things I might have seen were reproductions of Alphonse Mucha posters.” Things have changed a lot for the couple since then....
...Decrees are published every day, but none of them are executed,” wrote the French envoy Alphonse Dano....
...The foundation for Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) will offer some of his images as Non-Fungible Tokens this month....
...The exhibition includes a Russian amethyst pendant bought in 1913 by Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII, and a diamond bow brooch purchased by Baron Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild in 1912....
...The subdued palette has been inspired by the art nouveau posters of the artist Alphonse Mucha, a museum of whose work is a couple of blocks away....
...It infused interior design, furniture, textiles and jewellery, the graphic art of Alphonse Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec and the glassware of Lalique....
...What a gift she and her serpent were to art nouveau sinuosity — femmes fatales by Alphonse Mucha, Victor Prouvé, Adolphe Cossard and more....
...Alphonse ate the diamond. The great thing about this eccentric writing process is that it really tests your powers of narration....
...Alphonse’s legacy is a handy device, a place in which to lay bare the inequalities born of shade. Desiree arrives, on the run from a violent husband in Washington DC, with a seven-year-old girl....
...He profited in 1918 from Degas’s posthumous sale — the New Orleans rarity “Courtyard of a House” — and from connections to collector Alphonse Kann, Proust’s childhood playmate and model for Charles Swann...
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