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...Michel Chaudun worked at Maison du Chocolat before opening his own store on Rue de L’Université in 1986, cherished for its Wonka-like displays....
...She has been portrayed on screen numerous times, including in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, in which Asia Argento plays her as a vulgar prostitute....
...The companion portraits on either side, and the trompe-l’oeil murals of deluxe drapery, are fresh from the hand of Swiss pastel virtuoso Nicolas Party....
...One of the first broadsides against private equity was Steven Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar’s Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows....
...During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette evaded the Parisian mob through a secret door in her bedroom at Versailles....
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...She’s in the Marie-Antoinette suite. But in general I prefer comfortable and cosy places over fancy ones....
...“But my father was still married to Antoinette de Watteville, and he had his other girlfriend living there....
...Nadim Sheiban, director of Jerusalem’s L.A....
...She set the colour palette, filling the interior with art and antiques, endlessly decorating and redecorating close to 40 châteaux and maisons, from L’Ermitage de Pompadour to the Elysée Palace, all with...
...The compulsive hunter of rare seeds and exotic specimens, keeper of black swans, emu, and — like Marie-Antoinette whom in so many respects she followed — the shepherdess of a flock of merinos, she was not...
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...L’Aller Retour on Rue Charles-François Dupuis was a cosy meat restaurant where we’d take foreign visitors....
...And I have two from his first own-label couture line, furiously fought over by customers and department stores, with aprons of taffeta and fichus worn à l’Arlésienne, like 19th-century portraits....
...Like a silent warning to the Botox-smooth, selfie-snapping tribe who prowl Art Basel’s halls, “Pride” sprawls on her vintage chair like a cross between Miss Haversham and Marie Antoinette....
...With my immense admiration, Christine L.” Beyond the excessive flattery, she intended to remind the president that her failure would be his too....
...Fendi (the woman, not the brand) has long-supported Guadagnino — she was respectively associate producer and producer of his 2009 film Io Sono L’Amore and 2018’s Suspiria....
...However, the museum will not only show his collection — various collaborations are planned, with the Giacometti Foundation and the Swiss-based Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, among others....
...They had barely begun to sip champagne and marvel at the rococo decoration where Marie-Antoinette once lived when word reached them of a fire at Notre-Dame cathedral....
...Don’t miss the detail about his cat, Choupette, “on whom he doted to an almost Marie Antoinette-ish degree”....
...In contrast to the vast space that the old restaurant once occupied, L’Ecrin seats a maximum of 22 covers....
...Whether specially commissioned in lace, from the makers of Marie Antoinette’s fans for a Qatari Royal Family wedding, or printed with personalised phrases such as “Air Conditioning”, they make a decadent...
...Obonjan’s version of camping is like Marie Antoinette’s version of farming....
...Pallot, according to the Quotidien de l’Art, has admitted to the judge that he had copies made of a chair in Marie Antoinette’s music room in the Belvédère pavilion in Versailles in 2013 — the two that the...
...Those of us who like a good panzanella, pappa al pomodoro or soupe à l’oignon would concur....
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