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...Her friend and colleague Jean-Antoine Watteau also used a radiant brush to paint over his depression....
...Parmentier persuaded Marie Antoinette to wear potato flowers in her hair, and the king to wear them in his buttonhole. With that, potatoes became fashionable in France....
...Its selection of plush interiors is curated by Antoine Bn, “chasseur de palais”....
...Like Marie Antoinette playing milkmaid, she ambles heedlessly towards death, a great gash blooming out of her hip....
...“As caretakers of these big French names we feel a responsibility,” Antoine Arnault, who is Mr Arnault’s eldest son, told the FT....
...independent curator Jérôme Sans will be co-artistic director, sharing the role with Paula Aisemberg, who until recently was director of La Maison Rouge, a private exhibition space started by collector Antoine...
...If the full-lengths steal the show, it is the more intimate portraits of family and friends that steal our hearts — whether the fresh-faced little boy in his cap by the court painter to Marie Antoinette,...
...That is changing as the Chinese market, especially tier-one cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou, adopt more western tastes, says Renee Hartmann, co-founder of China Luxury Advisors....
...Jones seems most impressed by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who is often called “the father of modern chemistry”....
...A master craftsman in the Faubourg St Antoine, a district famed for making furniture of all sorts, supposedly produced the pieces in question....
...Credit for making the first keyless watches goes to Breguet’s son, Antoine-Louis Breguet....
...To November 15, fondation.cartier.com Photographs: JP Mika; Michael De Plaen; Florian Kleinefenn; André Morin; Fabrice Gousset; Antoine de Roux; Kiripi Katembo; Lukanga...
...“That’s a Yo-Yo Ma or Renée Fleming thing . . . To be one little thread that is going through the season is quite extraordinary.” It certainly turned out to be so here....
...It’s linked to Versailles, to Marie Antoinette,” Mr Arnault has said. Some senior executives refer to him simply as God. He drives managers hard but pays them well....
...Renee Winegarten is author of ‘Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography’ (Yale University Press)...
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