Hints and tips:
...European culture would be a thin thing without Montaigne, Descartes, Debussy and Cézanne, to say nothing of the dictator’s dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte....
...… LA – c’est fini! Well, not exactly....
...Only the air conditioner whirring overhead, battling 34°C heat outside, gave a clue as to the tropical location....
...The prime minister finally uttered the “c” word in a speech to union leaders in September, but there are signs his caution was justified....
...Particularly good on the delusions of British economic policy under Gordon Brown....
...If you have a convection oven the whole crust will brown. Makes 10 ravazzate....
...Christine Bridge, a London specialist in old glass, recently sold a rare cut crystal tumbler, probably by Baccarat c.1820, with three royal French portraits – Louis Napoleon, his young wife Marie Louise...
...Napoleon in Egypt: The Greatest Glory By Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape £20, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Napoleon’s inglorious dry run for his disastrous invasion of Russia was aimed at the conquest...
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