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...Napoleon, inspecting the factory in 1806 ,was so impressed that he awarded him the Légion d’honneur....
...“It’s strange visiting a house when you don’t know the owner,” says Martin of meeting the retired journalist and photographer who’d lived there for 20 years....
...Baroness Anne Jenkin, chair of the Women2Win campaign that aims to get more female Tory MPs elected, said: “I’d encourage any women on the candidates list to put their names forward....
...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...I’d forgotten along the way that dressing is always dressing-up. I emerged from lockdown girlishly, enjoying it for the first time....
...Chaumet has also just opened the Paris private salon above its boutique to the public for Un Âge d’Or (A Golden Age), showcasing the house’s jewels from the 1970s....
...“I loved ’80s wedding cakes and Marie Antoinette. It has a certain sense of luxury to it,” she says, not pausing in conversation or cake-decorating....
...Her latest project is a knitwear capsule for the house’s Scottish Métiers d’Art brand, Barrie – “my dream travel wardrobe”....
...For example, right at the beginning of the film, we see Marie Antoinette being guillotined that, and Napoleon wasn’t there. He was in the film, but that doesn’t matter at all....
...Ah, to the desserts, where the French themselves are prone to jeux d’esprit, vols de fantaisie and élans d’imagination. Where will Chef Harris take us?...
...Were I barred from all restaurants that didn’t have an E or SE postcode, I’d shrug....
...He’d turned Mick Jagger away for wearing the wrong shoes. I was scared I wouldn’t get past, but he said come in, and that’s when I decided to make clothes.”...
...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...
...A Savonnerie carpet commissioned by Louis XIV, a silver soup tureen that Catherine II gave to one of her lovers, a pair of candelabra that once belonged to Marie Antoinette – all are here....
...Antoinette Sayeh, deputy managing director and acting chair of the IMF’s executive board, said maintaining the reform measures would be crucial....
...Escapist shows heavy on miniskirts and optimistic colours felt irrelevant and sometimes Marie Antoinette-ish; and collections too rooted in pragmatism failed to excite....
...In Marie Antoinette’s case, only a few close confidantes would have been privy to her escape route....
...I’d like to say I lunched like a king, but in fact I probably lunched better, given that Louis XVI never had the benefit of an in-house Alain Ducasse restaurant in his château....
...So I’d love a subscription to Edinburgh-based chocolatier Ocelot Chocolate....
...Of all the Downing Street parties under police investigation, this one feels marginal: a brief celebration with staff who’d already been in meetings together....
...With more than 600 products, from terracotta pomegranates steeped in Melograno (€45) to almond hand cream (€35) or tiny lacquered boxes of Carta d’Armenia paper (€15), there is something here for everyone...
...I love that you can go for a walk and learn something quite concentrated and fascinating about Rousseau or Marie-Antoinette you’d never otherwise discover unless you went out of your way to find it....
...“We’d removed about 10 layers of wallpaper,” says Martin of the laborious process of reconstruction. “In the end we found this very early design from the mid-1700s.”...
...Emily in Paris is the latest in a tranche of dramas embracing one of Hollywood’s most enduring plot lines: the ingénue who pitches up in the City of Love (see also: Before Sunset, Marie Antoinette and, naturally...
...Everyone knows his work, but it focused on his relationship with nature, which was something I’d not heard much about....
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