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...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...Travel by train to Modane (direct services from Paris Gare de Lyon take as little as four hours 36 minutes) before a 30-minute taxi or bus to the homespun comfort of Hotel Saint Charles in Val Cenis, the...
...C Mortgages....
...David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C, suggested the government’s original timeline for withdrawing the scheme now appeared out of kilter with market sentiment....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...L’état, c’est moi’ The personalisation of postwar French politics can be traced back to the domineering de Gaulle, who oversaw the creation of the system that has endowed the president with substantial...
...L’état, c’est moi President Emmanuel Macron has suggested he will fully nationalise state-controlled electricity group EDF in a further effort to reform France’s energy sector and calm the turmoil in European...
...The renovated 1930s industrial building has a fully glazed roof and is shaped like a letter A, “and we just put the letters C and B around it,” says Bonnet, when I ask him what CAB means....
...But he also identified, famously, with his delusional heroine: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.”...
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...Overshadowed by his two more famous brothers Claude and Charles, who respectively helped design the Louvre and wrote the Mother Goose tales for children, Pierre developed an interest in the Seine and proved...
...Buckinghamshire Crossword 16,057: Clare Job, Dorset; T Alderson, Stevenage; Amanda Riddle, Essex Polymath 1,003: R Rutter, Shropshire Crossword 16,052: Trevor Mason, Hertford; Gareth Daves, Newport; Charles...
...According to C&B, this is “a rare cuvée named after Oliver Minkley — a talented comedian who used to tell jokes to the sheeps [sic] while working at Breaky Bottom”....
...Arte E Moda di Cristea Florin & C, +390565-763 694....
...Then, sat in an armchair, with a coffee in one hand, Pierce embarks on the story of Charles L Black, a white lawyer from Texas, who saw Louis Armstrong play jazz in 1931, and two decades later joined the...
...(FT) How Charles Schwab ate Wall Street The investment firm was previously known as a discount broker for amateurs....
...Art and photography by Jackie Wullschlager Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, by Carmen C Bambach, Yale University Press RRP£50/Metropolitan Museum of Art RRP$65 A showcase of visual seduction...
...Charles White responded to the criminalising of Black Power activists with his oil-painted Wanted posters alluding to runaway slaves....
...Like a latter-day Louis XIV, Candidate Trump took a “l’état c’est moi” approach, telling Americans he would fix the country’s ills....
...What we’re reading Was Charles Michel, Belgium’s prime minister, originally one of the targets of last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels?...
...Mr Darcy, however, is intrigued, and Caroline’s brother Charles gives Elizabeth the freedom of his library....
...Charles de Gaulle international airport....
...Mark’s Club, 46 Charles Street (020-7499 2936; www.marksclub.co.uk). Scott’s, 20 Mount Street (020-7495 7309; www.scotts-restaurant.com)....
...Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Janet L. Yellen, Chair; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Lael Brainard; Charles L. Evans; Stanley Fischer; Jeffrey M. Lacker; Dennis P....
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