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...The enchanting stone house, in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, feels like the setting of a Charles Perrault fairy tale....
...As the sun begins to set, we turn towards it, then follow a dirt track beside the sea north to the village of Cabo de la Vela....
...Making his Scala debut, American Charles Castronovo was irrepressible as the swashbuckling Gabriele Adorno, his refulgent tenor striking but sometimes pushed....
...“It’s a magical place,” says author and journalist Rosa Montero, who loves the park so much she moved 15 years ago to live next to it, on the corner of calle de Ibiza....
...Exploring the archive, Simmons and McAuley discovered prints based on Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables....
...Doctor Fourquet is also home to F2, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Espacio Mínimo and Juan Silió galleries, and very close by, 1Mira Madrid, Maisterravalbuena and Rosa Santos....
...À la Mère de Famille’s 18th-century shop, on Rue de Faubourg Montmartre, promises similar antique charm with glass-topped displays, candied fruits and confectionery alongside its handmade chocolates....
...opera and dance, with the Belgian choreographer pairing each character with an artist from her Rosas group....
...Sales of office buildings at La Défense on the outskirts of Paris have collapsed this year as the property downturn hits a business district conceived by the late French president Charles de Gaulle to rival...
...On Friday night La Scala’s Roberto Bolle celebrated 25 years as a Covent Garden guest....
...Here, he has administered facelifts to the 19th-century Arc de Triomphe (a brushed-steel internal staircase was integrated into one of the columns) and the 3,000-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Place de la Concorde...
...La Laguna’s Unesco World Heritage-grade old town, as presented by my guide Felix de la Rosa, is full of mighty colonial mansions, their dour volcanic-basalt facades enlivened with pastel stucco and towering...
...Renoir’s “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette” (1876) captured revellers in Montmartre as a dance of curves and looping forms, darker and brighter costumes a mesh of harmonious colour though which light streams...
...Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti....
...The schedule also alludes to memorable moments from the Queen’s 13 trips to France, such as a stop she made at a flower market on Paris’s l’île de la Cité on her first visit in 1948 as a young princess....
...“I couldn’t vote for either one,” said Carolina de la Rosa, 40, who runs a shoe business....
...An essay on Assia Djebar’s film La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1979), featuring a woman architect returning to the mountainous region of her childhood, flits, as Sedira does, between documentary, activism...
...Many of the pieces are by Charles and Ray Eames and also by the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, who broke the mould of what furniture was supposed to look like....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...Keep an eye out for the region’s answer to Father Christmas, La Tante Arie, a local legend thought to be a reincarnation of charitable medieval countess Henriette de Montbéliard....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Creativity flowed in every way; Hugo’s writing at Hauteville House included novels Les Travailleurs de la Mer [Toilers of the Sea] and L’Homme Qui Rit [The Man Who Laughs], and poetry....
...He also said he would get rid of “much of” the existing legislation....
...Described by Blanchard as “opera in jazz”, this powerful adaptation of Charles M Blow’s painful coming-of-age memoir returns with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Charles....
...At the haute couture shows in July, one could spy a slip of the nip at Schiaparelli, Jean Paul Gaultier and Charles de Vilmorin, to name a few....
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