Hints and tips:
...A keystone item was an ivory bonbonnière (sweet box) with a snail‑shaped cover, which was unsigned but suspected to be by André Groult....
...I’m reminded of former president Georges Pompidou’s famous declaration: “The French love their cars.” And certainly, Hidalgo has made no friends with her ongoing efforts to reduce traffic....
...“I’m confident the US will be resilient next year,” said Bazin, citing a promising labour market and big investments in factories and other areas....
...(laughter) Lilah Raptopoulos I feel like I’m thinking I’m done. André MackI’m like trying to leave right now. And that was that....
...“I take drugs because I’m a lousy lay,” he confesses (although the opiates surely can’t be doing him any favours here either)....
...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
...We see his groundbreaking 1984 graduate collection Les Incroyables, revisiting clothes from post-revolutionary France via a New Romantic sensibility....
...added Andres Sanchez Balcazar, head of global bonds at Pictet. “I’m not sure there is the political will to go in that direction.”...
...The brand’s largest market is still France, accounting for about 30 per cent of sales. Europe, as a whole, accounts for half....
...But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador scrapped the state investment agency, which previously helped promote and direct investment in the country....
...With that in mind, I’m offering readers two tales of energy transition from South Africa, one from the private and one from the state sector....
...Henry scoured catalogues and gained from private presents: some of his best varieties came from France and Germany, including René André with lovely small apricot-pink flowers, and the unusual Erinnerung...
...The firm has been known for giving free rein to its larger-than-life personalities including the likes of André Meyer, Felix Rohatyn and more recently, Matthieu Pigasse....
...The first renminbi-settled LNG transaction on the Shanghai exchange was reported in March between China’s national oil company and France’s Total....
...“You would rent a stone and you would call and say, ‘I’m number xx, my business cards are running out, can you print 200 more copies?’”...
...But for my daughter Frances and for me I would say that that building has been a fortress of absolute safety....
...I was late to reading my colleague Simon Kuper’s characteristically limpid FT Weekend essay on the political street fight in France. Does France need a sixth republic? Take the time to read Simon....
...I’m taken with the selection of well-aged lowboys, which would smarten up a landing or L-shaped entryway dressed with a lamp and a tray or potted fern....
...Now a boutique hotel run by Parladé’s nephew, Andrés, the art- and antique-filled finca still bears the imprint of its former inhabitants, from the well-stocked library to the tapestries hanging in the six...
...Additional reporting by Neil Hume in London, Max Seddon in Riga and Andres Schipani in Kyiv...
...But France at least has a cinema culture where the topic can be addressed....
...General manager André Cheminade tells me that this is already becoming “a place of architectural, as well as horological, pilgrimage”....
...“I’m really into fairytales – so it’s like we’re bringing life to a Sleeping Beauty,” says the 43-year-old with a smile....
...I’m on the lookout for a set of new dining chairs. Have you any ideas? People often say the dining room is dead. I disagree....
...Over 20 per cent of the public in Germany, France, Britain and America are saying, yes, we believe that....
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