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...Designer-jeweller Cassandra Goad, who visited French châteaux as in-depth research for her latest La Belle France collection, juxtaposes a pear-shaped diamond with a square-cut blue sapphire, adding baguette...
...The supremely cool Parisian DJ Claire-Marie Rutledge gave it a style refresh in 2022, and now it’s often booked close to solid, especially at weekends....
...Magic Circus Éditions Marie-Lise Féry’s playful designs will catch the eye at Maison&Objet. Her Big Chain 01 – Empoli pendant light is one jaw dropper....
...This is in fact some of Cartier’s most creative jewellery, now under the domain of Marie-Laure Cérède, the creative director of watchmaking who has recently added this area of jewellery to her remit....
...(La belle idée is quite elegant, and she has only ever considered this as a compliment.)...
...Matild Palace dates to 1902, one of two belle époque buildings flanking the Elizabeth Bridge commissioned by Marie Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
...The “accidentally vegetarian” menu includes a “mushreuben” sandwich with roasted maitake mushrooms so good you won’t miss the pastrami. westbourne.com Ten Belles, ParisAmong the many coffee bars located...
...As the world wakes each morning waiting for good news from laboratories, the raw thrill of science inspires Radioactive, a singular biopic of Marie Curie....
...tennis courts settles the dust for a day’s play, and wind machines remove rogue leaves and begonia blossom from the cushioned pathways that run parallel to the Grande Allée, the famous avenue connecting the belle...
...Groskop admits that her chosen works and authors don’t always dowonders for the illusion of la belle France, but she rightly accepts their flaws as an integral part of their character....
...“The project was really nice,” recalls Ropion, the nose behind commercial blockbusters such as Lancôme’s La Vie Est Belle and Thierry Mugler’s Alien....
...“Pays Natal”, written by the 1960s heroines Marie Paule Belle and Françoise Mallet-Joris, is an explicit meditation on exile, its madeleine the smell of “bread with sesame or cumin”....
...His clothes were physical collages, colliding 18th-century corsets and belle-époque bustles with ’40s couture and ’70s glam, slinging Byzantine jewellery over the lot, maybe perching it on a Louis XIV heel...
...In Paris, a survey conducted this month by estate agents Belles Demeures de France and Daniel Féau found that a third of buyers with budgets between €500,000 and €1.5m say outside space and the ability to...
...came to terms with revolution, lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 — when Kaiser Wilhelm had himself crowned in the Hall of Mirrors, provoking Clemenceau’s desire for vengeance — triumphed during the Belle...
...On a working vacation in the US, he nearly wed a southern belle. But he returned instead to marry Bernadette Chodron de Courcel, the daughter of a prominent diplomat....
...Her holiday accommodation, Gîte Belle Vie, is in Sainte-Marie-de-Campan, a small Pyrenean village that marks the start of the 17.2km climb to Col du Tourmalet, the highest paved mountain pass in the French...
...The next day guests will return by helicopter to the Hôtel de Crillon, to stay in the Marie-Antoinette suite where the French queen spent her early years....
...Lundgreen, who works at Belles Demeures de France specialising in luxury real estate....
...But the most interesting elements of BBC4’s Giselle: Belle of the Ballet (Sunday, 8pm) reflect the changing society of 1840s Paris, where Giselle first loved and languished, and the concomitant developments...
...Domaine Sainte Marie des Crozes is run by Christelle Alias, whose father Bernard renovated the estate at the end of the last century....
...The Romanian-Greek poet Marie Cavadia was a patron, as was the Syrian-Lebanese painter Amy Nimr, who studied at the Slade in London....
...After many years of moving about, Adnan now lives in Paris, where her home, which she shares with her long-term partner, the Syrian sculptor Simone Fattal, is a well-appointed Belle Époque apartment near...
...A four-bedroom, two-bathroom cottage in the village of Bangor on Belle-Ile, with an office, wine cellar and sea views is on sale for €777,600 through Belle Ile Immobilier....
...Other Chalonnaise bargains include Paul et Marie Jacqueson, La Pucelle Premier Cru 2014 Rully Blanc (£140 Lea & Sandeman) and a plump, only mildly rustic red Dom des Moirots 2014 Givry (£102 Howard Ripley...
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