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...I was born in Brittany, which is not known for being tropical, but I always used to swim in the invigorating water there....
...Its global success, which has drawn clients including Pierre Yovanovitch, has been a surprise. “We’re only doing what the inhabitants of the house did in the 1870s,” says Rauzy....
...“It’s created using very old techniques by a dedicated cartonnier workshop in Brittany.” Such ornamental boxes were part of an entire métier in the 1800s in France....
...I have to visit Pierre Marcolini (89 Rue de Seine, 6th arr.) — the best chocolatier in the city....
...“So all the panels were put on a train and it went to Brittany....
...Next door, Le Bistrot des Remparts is a little more rustic, and across the road is the trendier Pierre, Restaurant des Copains, run by Top Chef (the French MasterChef) 2016 quarter-finalist Pierre Eon....
...For centuries, Brittany had been a poor region, far from Paris; unindustrialised and dirt-floor rural....
...For the French who grew up holidaying in the not-dissimilar landscapes of Biarritz or Brittany, the region holds special appeal....
...Brittany has reported only 226 fatalities in its hospitals and is the region least affected....
...“We got the call two days beforehand saying that we would need to have a train ready for Thursday evening,” said Pierre Meyer, who runs the crisis response unit for SNCF....
...Brittany Ferries also said it could cut the number of Channel crossings it makes following quarantine for anyone entering the UK from France....
...Pierre-Olivier Clouet, the infectiously enthusiastic winemaker at Château Cheval Blanc in Saint-Émilion, scorns the notion of “competition” between the best wines....
...Among the recent Paris émigrés who seek a balance between value for money and quality of life is Pierre Vandorpe, a retired IT company director....
...There is a scene in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1995 film The City of Lost Children where sinister twins cook in a strange kind of symbiosis, four arms intertwined in multiple simultaneous tasks....
...UniCredit’s dealmaker cum chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier (pictured below) isn’t a man who gives up on things easily....
...On October 31 2002, her parents were killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Brittany, in north-west France....
...In the meantime, her daughter married Jean-Pierre Meyers, the grandson of a rabbi killed at Auschwitz....
...In 1981, he bought back the family business after the Brittany mill that produced paper for cigarettes and bibles fell on hard times....
...It is a sad, homesick refrain dedicated to the French fishing village of Paimpol in Brittany, also featured in Loti’s book....
...First came the egg-smashing protest in Brittany, then it was boss-napping in a Goodyear tyre plant. Last month, farmers dumped 100 tons of steaming manure in central Chartres....
...His cousin Pierre-Alexis is artistic director and together they oversee a company that is seeing its biggest growth in decades despite shrinking global demand....
...The French government immediately hit back at the rating agency, with Pierre Moscovici, the French finance minister, saying he “regrets the inaccurate and critical judgments made by the rating agency Standards...
...Philippe Bonnin, a Socialist politician with links to Pierre Moscovici, finance minister, told La Tribune that Philippe Varin, Peugeot’s chief executive, had “asked for a loan” from the government, which...
...“The idea was to organise, almost everywhere across the region, contemporary art exhibitions,” says researcher Dr Pierre-Alain Four, who evaluated the role of the Frac for his doctorate....
...Bernard’s vision furnished Paul Gauguin, who was also living in Brittany, with the painterly tools to make his early masterpiece “Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)” (1888)....
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