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...“True fashion luxury started in homes at the beginning of the 20th century,” says Marie Blanchet of the couturiers who would visit their clients. “You had to be invited in.”...
...From the age of three, her mother, the French-Algerian actor Catherine Belkhodja, dragged her to castings around Paris in the hope of turning her into a star....
...Here’s the entry on Burkbraun’s Radium Chocolate, from the early 20th century and included to symbolise the radium craze that followed Marie Curie’s discovery of the element, making her the first female...
...Democrats will retain a majority in the US Senate in a big boost to Joe Biden’s presidency after Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada....
...Anholt and Marie-Elisabeth Merlin from Aix-en-Provence....
...A Savonnerie carpet commissioned by Louis XIV, a silver soup tureen that Catherine II gave to one of her lovers, a pair of candelabra that once belonged to Marie Antoinette – all are here....
...But the system itself has gone out of date, says Catherine Fieschi, founder of the think-tank Counterpoint....
...Many of the pieces come with illustrious provenance (Savonnerie rugs designed for the Louvre; a sewing table made for Marie Antoinette; silver service commissioned by Catherine II of Russia), all of it arrayed...
...Newly appointed foreign minister Catherine Colonna travelled to Kyiv last month....
...Hollywood proposed idealistic historic epics around the lives of Queen Christina, Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette; even modernism in interiors was eschewed in favour of styles emulating the scrolls...
...Austria produced 16 children, overhauled much of her empire’s administration and waged war on her hated enemy, Frederick the Great of Prussia, as well as sending copious advice to her children (including Marie...
...Catherine, hands folded in her lap, gazes impassively into the distance in three-quarter profile....
...Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letter in response to this article: Election shows France has yet to reckon with its past / From Catherine Boyle, PhD Candidate, International...
...Parisians have been devotees since Catherine de’ Medici commissioned a scent that came to be known as Acqua della Regina (and is still sold today, from €75) on her marriage to Henry II of France in the 16th...
...My beauty guru is Christophe Robin, who used to do the hair colour of everyone from Carla Bruni to Catherine Deneuve....
...“After an hour, you feel like the works have always been there,” says Catherine Pégard, the director of the Versailles Palace....
...The trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said it was “absolutely not” the government’s intention to trigger Article 16 before Christmas, and Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s Brexit negotiator, wearily confirmed...
...The model Marie Helvin, all limbs and languor, is caught draped over an armchair – or over her new husband, David Bailey. Gibson and Newton link arms and cavort in their Speedos....
...The cosmopolitan Dussek enjoyed the patronage of Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great and Talleyrand, and lived at various times in Hamburg, St Petersburg, Paris and London....
...Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle was born in 1930 into an aristocratic French family and raised in New York....
...There is currently only one female chief executive in the CAC 40, Catherine MacGregor at energy group Engie, though cosmetics maker L'Oréal recently named Barbara Lavernos as its first female deputy CEO,...
...In “Rodin: Le Livre du Centenaire” (2017) Catherine Chevillot, director of the Musée Rodin, argues that plaster was “the material most crucial to his aesthetic, giving the impression of sculptures that are...
...This open letter written by de Beauvoir and published in April 1971 saw hundreds of well-known women — including the actors Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau and the writers Marguerite Duras and Françoise...
...There are his characteristic projected charcoal sketches and animated and live-action films, all seen against a hyper-busy set of planks and ramps (Catherine Meyburgh is credited as projection designer,...
...(Thomas is an academic and authority on Marie Antoinette.)...
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