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...Monet’s teacher Eugène Boudin offered the Impressionists his gentle, sensitively observed pastel skyscapes; elderly Adolphe-Félix Cals sent his lively “The Old Fisherman” (1873), explaining he joined because...
...But France, the US and the UK have a wealth tax already — it’s just that it’s triggered by death. Which brings us to the psychological core of the issue....
...To lovers of literature and opera, cancelling Alexander Pushkin, poet and author of Eugene Onegin, might seem a bit over the top. Putin, yes, but why Pushkin?...
...climate change — a bestseller in France....
...The blaze sent the 19th-century spire erected by French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc crashing into the interior, destroying the roof, altar and much of the nave....
...As a symbol of “the travels with the Impressionists”, her grandmother gave her a beach scene by the French landscape painter Eugène Boudin....
...Leaving France, he takes us on a tour of the various scenes of Munich, New York and across America in the 19th and 20th centuries....
...In reality, there was only ever one suspected murder on the Orient Express (in 1950 the body of Eugene Karpe, a US naval attaché in Bucharest, was found lying by the line near Salzburg), but there was plenty...
...He spent most of his life wrestling with what it meant to be a modern painter and was sceptical about the world he lived in, from political unrest in France to a continually accelerating way of life....
...Highlights of his London sales included a rare portrait by Edgar Degas from 1874 of Eugène Manet, brother of the Impressionist painter, which sold for £5.3mn (est £4mn-£6mn, £6.3mn with fees)....
...Along with Denmark and France, Austria has the highest top personal income tax rates in Europe, so someone earning more than €90,000 pays 50 per cent tax. But they get a lot in return....
...Presiding over all is Degas’s portrait of his friend Eugène Manet, the brother of Édouard, painted as a wedding gift to him and his bride, Berthe Morisot....
...Sussurro’s management company is Blue Ocean Management, a Cyprus-based company that also manages Le Grand Bleu, a 113-metre superyacht that Abramovich reportedly gave to his business associate Eugene Shvidler...
...Eugene Tenenbaum, an associate of Abramovich who has served as a director of Chelsea since the oligarch took it over in 2003, is a Jersey resident, according to British corporate records....
...Or to Morisot’s “Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden”, the gender roles of painter/model gloriously reversed, an artist radically painting her husband — as passive, neutral, a foil for luminous little...
...Eugene Rumer, a former top US intelligence official on Russia now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said apparent divisions between Putin and his military leaders support the American assessment...
...of the company by France’s Socialists....
...The exhibition invites us to see Poussin as Eugène Delacroix did: as “one of the greatest innovators”....
...“When I was young, I had a rap group. African-American culture had a real impact on France. Hip-hop, the culture of the neighbourhoods, Harlem had a direct echo in the Parisian suburbs....
...But if one wants a demonstration of the relative effectiveness of pro- or anti-nuclear stances in delivering greenhouse gas reductions one need only look at France and Germany....
...Indeed, France has already done trial runs, delivering surprises for insurance companies and banks. Van Steenis might be over-optimistic with his timetable, since he is a fan of these green tests....
...The painting is resonant for the port of Shanghai: it depicts the busy Le Havre harbour during its expansion as France’s transatlantic gateway, when the country was reorienting itself from Mediterranean...
...The spire was not part of the original design and was only added in the mid-1800s during a restoration led by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc....
...Just opposite Rue Eugène Spuller is the Carreau du Temple, a 19th-century market beautifully converted into a cultural centre (it escaped being replaced by a multi-storey car park in the 1980s)....
...As for many immigrants, this was Camille Pissarro’s first view of France — he disembarked in Le Havre as a child in 1842, from the Caribbean island of St Thomas — and also his last: his final works, another...
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