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...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...His everyday scenes are harsher, bleaker: the implicit violence in the claustrophobic “Interior (The Rape)”; “L’Absinthe”, the desolate woman at a bar — answered by Manet’s “Plum Brandy”, featuring the same...
...At Chicago cocktail bar After, fine and rare brandies are also on display....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
...Oak-aged pear juice, served in a brandy balloon, brought mellow sweetness to a sticky onion tarte Tatin topped with Dorstone goat’s cheese....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is L’Eau d’Ambre Extrême by L’Artisan Parfumeur....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
...the great and the good who gravitated to the Côte d’Azur,” says Michael Hoppen, whose London gallery sells vintage signed Quinn works and has a starry selection featuring Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda and Jayne...
...He bought it with his then boyfriend, the designer Roubi L’Roubi, whose ideas did not go down well in the staid world of bespoke tailoring....
...When she was studying French at Reading University in the late 1980s, Jayne Powell was so effervescent, Francophile and bibulous, she was known as Champagne Jayne....
...Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of Virgin Money, said: “We are very confident of our assumptions, which are, of course, explicitly and fully audited every half year and full year.”...
...The idea of return to work programmes or “returnships” was pioneered by Goldman Sachs and highlighted in this year’s review into women in finance led by Virgin Money boss Jayne-Anne Gadhia....
...The current owner of the Domecq bodega in Jerez’s beautiful and increasingly valuable old town is Andrew L Tan, Chinese owner of Emperador, the world’s biggest-selling brandy....
...Newish chief executive Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet (ex-L’Oréal and LVMH), might offer more news shortly after at an investor day....
...Meanwhile, on a spirit lamp at the table, begin reducing red wine, port and brandy in a silver sauté pan....
...From Mr Gordon L Jaynes....
...Individuals – winners of Enterprise Promotion award Mrs Christine Atkinson Mr Timothy Barnes Mr Eric Binns Professor Mark Hart Mr Wray Irwin Mr Guy Mucklow Miss Ann Stonehouse Mrs Jayne Taggart...
...At weekends he would add a shot of brandy or rum. The latter came in handy at Christmas. He was wedded to tradition but disliked its flavour....
...It’s surprising how easy it is to open a barrel of prized brandy....
...Then there are the puddings – prunes à l’eau de vie, greengage plums in brandy and sugar, croustade aux pommes. All those tastes are still in my mouth and my brain. What’s a typical Gascon feast?...
...Eight people were hospitalised in Slovakia over the weekend after drinking Czech cherry brandy, but the country has not restricted imports of Czech alcohol....
...“Why, I’m the butler,” was Hatendi’s response, to which the policeman asked, what was the butler doing with a large glass of brandy in one hand, and a cigar in the other?...
...“Celebrity fragrances, like celebrities themselves, can sometimes be elegant and alluring and sometimes vacant, brain-dead white trash,” says Linda Pilkington of the exclusive perfume brand Ormonde Jayne...
...At a restaurant in the Hirtenstrasse, the Berlin district flooded with displaced, impoverished Jews from the east, Roth finds one L....
...Yet it is the many characters assigned to Houdyshell and Horton – including L.L. Zamenhof, the real-life founder of Esperanto – who provide the play with its richest textures....
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