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...This summer it becomes the 88-room Hôtel du Couvent, the latest creation of Valéry Grégo, the maverick hotelier behind Le Pigalle in Paris and Les Roches Rouges in Saint-Raphaël....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Julian Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle, A Certain Idea of France....
...“Painted tokens, like little talismans, are hidden in amazingly beautiful places on the seabed close to the coastline,” explains Charles....
...Monday China, Q3 GDP data and monthly retail sales figures UK, Rightmove monthly house price figures US, monthly industrial production and capacity utilisation figures Results: Charles Schwab Q3, Philips...
...Charles Aznavour preferred not to pick a favourite from the more than 1,000 songs he wrote because “the last one I’ve written is always the one I think is the best”....
...Like Le Corbusier’s nearby and better-known Maison La Roche building, it represents an expression of Le Corbusier’s ideas on urban living....
...Sure, along the way there were plenty of lurid tales (ranging from five-star hotel-based foursomes involving a senior executive and one of the group’s clients to drug-fuelled vacations in Las Vegas)....
...Individual passion, rather than committee decisions, creates exceptional collections: pieces by Braque, Juan Gris and Léger here gifted by Cubist collector Raoul La Roche; Schiele’s “Bildnis Erich Lederer...
...“Behind the great glass windows,” observed the German traveller and writer Sophie von la Roche, “absolutely everything one can think of is neatly, attractively displayed, in such abundance of choice as almost...
...Nice sparked controversy las week by rejecting Roche’s Kadcyla breast cancer drug, which typically extends a patient’s life by about six months at a cost of £90,000....
...Cancer scientists have a new patron saint: Charles Darwin....
...At the same time, Jean Charles Le Bault de la Morinière of Bonneau de Martray agreed it was too early to judge the quality potential of the 2009s but was still marvelling at how easy they had been to ripen...
...(The Society is still smarting from the director of one fine wine trader’s assault on their allocation of Hermitage La Chapelle 1978.)...
...Could drink now. 13% Dom de la Vougeraie, Les Petits Noizons 2005 Pommard £31 WaitroseFrom an over-peforming domaine....
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