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...(There is an apocryphal tale that Marie Antoinette, after being presented with a silk rose, fainted at the sight of it.)...
...As a result, compared with 1789 or 1917, 1848 has received short shrift from historians, dismissed by Lewis Namier as merely a “revolution of the intellectuals” and by GM Trevelyan as “the turning point...
...Marie-Antoinette once famously urged that hungry French protesters should eat cake. At least in the UK this is VAT-free. Michael PoynorCoustouge, Occitanie, France...
...It had a staggering performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, and it asks very profound questions....
...More successful, and an obvious comparison for Corsage, is Sofia Coppola’s minxy, playful portrait of Marie Antoinette (2006)....
...Meanwhile the first fiancée, Carrie Symonds, whose choice of gold wallpaper supposedly sent the prime minister into paroxysms, has been dubbed Carrie Antoinette....
...“A lot of our supporters aspire to owning John Lewis furniture.”...
...It was Djimou, along with Britain’s former Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis, who was there for Johnson-Thompson when she was at her most vulnerable....
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...Was Thalberg art’s gift to Hollywood, with his well-bred epics (Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette)? Or was he a mogul playing to the middlebrow?...
...Of Marie Antoinette he observes: “Major goodwill breakdown. Instead of making her constituents believe that their interest was her sole concern, she let her ethos suffer with that quote about cake.”...
...One example is the recent appointment of Luke Mayhew, the highly regarded former John Lewis executive, to chair Pets at Home, the pet store chain acquired in 2004 by Bridgepoint ....
...It was a kind of Marie Antoinette metaphor for our food-obsessed times. Perhaps we are all middle-aged now, even on our campuses....
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