Hints and tips:
...Debauve was the royal pharmacist and official chocolatier to Marie Antoinette. Or so the story goes....
...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...“It’s a real insult to say that I’m against it.”...
...I’m deeply in thrall to this arcane, transformative power of the ribbon....
...A Conservative campaign saying it is “mission accomplished” on this front will make Sunak look like Marie Antoinette and if the Tory campaign sounds anything like that, it will be a disaster....
...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....
...Now, she says, “I’m so clear, and so centred in this way that I don’t think I’ve ever been”....
...I mean, I’m not sure where you’re going to get an iPhone, for example.”...
...“It’s still straight guys making the final decision, so they aren’t always interested in what I’m interested in,” she shrugs....
...I’m always amazed by the sloppiness of the reasoning of some of the people advocating for private equity. And some of them are my friends....
...I’m looking now at my notes. Just one line, the second word underlined: “Absolutely nothing new here.” Thank God....
...I’m doing it all on my own, the best way, the only way, I can.” Hogg, a self-confessed motormouth, is also endearing....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. As Misha Glenny says, there’s no love lost between President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia and Albin Kurti, Kosovo’s prime minister....
...This was most evident in the 18th century, when women’s fashion in Europe was dominated by low-cut corsets a-la Marie Antoinette....
...I’m not particularly convinced that 2022 will be any different....
...Take the tablecloth I noticed recently on Antoinette Poisson’s Instagram account....
...salt and pepper dishes: a heap of poivre and sel next to Marie Antoinette’s toppled ceramic head....
...I’m told that “sticky wines” from the impresario’s cellar could be added to the list in the coming months....
...“I’m a purist, so I’m mainly interested in the pre-1972 Barbies, made in Japan. Their outfits were inspired by Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor.”...
...Think taffeta; think Marie Antoinette....
...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....
...She’s in the Marie-Antoinette suite. But in general I prefer comfortable and cosy places over fancy ones....
...I’m not condoning it but I feel that if we don’t put some of these things on stage people won’t understand the past.”...
...Never having been a geranium fan previously, I’m now completely converted to these gnarly old survivors; plus, I’m a sucker for stories about spinsters and their bright, sororal blooms....
...“But my father was still married to Antoinette de Watteville, and he had his other girlfriend living there....
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