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How To Spend It In...
Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC
...I’ve just finished writing a book on Napoleon Bonaparte, who famously remarked, “They wanted me to be another Washington.”...
April 24, 2024
FT Magazine
Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people
...He’d see them in dreams....
March 2, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Culture chat — ‘Napoleon’ with historian Simon Schama
...Like they know that people care about Napoleon, so they know that if they’d make a movie about it, it will do well. But on the other hand, it’s not because it’s history....
December 8, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay — the defiant painters who gave us modern art
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
March 29, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House Museums #61: Château de Rosa Bonheur
...“Genius has no sex,” said Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, bestowing upon her the first female Légion d’Honneur in 1865....
March 30, 2024
UK defence spending
Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere
...The difference is, we haven’t cut the army to its smallest size since Napoleon.”...
April 24, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Design
Alternative Toile de Jouy — what would Marie Antoinette think?
...Napoleon, inspecting the factory in 1806 ,was so impressed that he awarded him the Légion d’honneur....
March 17, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
An expert guide to antiques hunting in Paris
...They truly are the masters of rattan furniture, furniture from the second half of the 19th century, Napoleon III-style ceramics and slips. Talmaris is the ultimate address for tableware lovers....
March 22, 2024
HTSI
HTSI editor’s letter: baking meets banking in this week’s issue
...The house, her grandmother and the Venetian surroundings have inspired Coco’s brand d’AddA, a clothing and accessories line....
March 2, 2024
Janan Ganesh
The rise of the political casual
...Until a decade ago, I’d assumed that some civic engagement in a person was better than none....
February 9, 2024
Jacob Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, British financier, dies aged 87
...So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...
February 26, 2024
ReviewFashion accessories
The best waterproof men’s boots for town and country
...And the discreet styling means you don’t wish you’d swapped out of your wellies first....
November 27, 2023
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: science is where the magic happens Premium content
...China’s pharma researchers do a lot of R&D of their own, but do not seem to produce many blockbusters....
December 8, 2023
Stephen Bush
The importance of the zero-star review
...This is a problem, because a critical shoeing isn’t just a form of hygiene, a way to separate Ridley Scott’s Gladiator from Ridley Scott’s Napoleon....
December 15, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
Best books of 2023 — History
...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson (Bloomsbury Academic) Sweden’s Nobel family, chiefly associated nowadays with the Nobel Prize, were...
November 16, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
FT Magazine
The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner
...“History, always history” was his passion, Napoleon an early hero. At a loss over what to buy his father for Christmas in 1976, he’d alighted on Pierrepoint’s autobiography....
February 9, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: How JPMorgan thrived amid a banking crisis
...Lilah Raptopoulos Do you ever wonder what exactly was off about Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, or why Dolly Parton’s new rock album is impossible to dislike?...
March 6, 2024
HTSI
Paris’s best silverware gets a polish
...“I like to call her the first influencer,” laughs Emilie Metge Viargues, the Parisian brand’s CEO and president, explaining that in the mid 19th-century, the wife of Napoleon III “was an insane fan of Christofle...
August 21, 2023
Fashion shows
At Paris Fashion Week, designers play to their strengths
...Demna said he felt his previous collection had been too “polished”, and he’d wanted this collection to feel rougher, more like himself: “I don’t care a lot about luxury or the whole idea of it, because I...
October 2, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Surrealism at 100: does it still have the power to disrupt?
...Can there be a more resonant piece for our statue-bashing era than Magritte’s disembodied cast of Napoleon’s head painted as a cloud, floating away?...
January 27, 2024
The Aesthete
Princess Ira von Fürstenberg talks taste
...An object I would never part with is a Golconda diamond that used to belong to [Napoleon’s consort] Joséphine de Beauharnais, in a ring given to me by my father....
June 9, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
Louvre director Laurence des Cars: ‘We have to face all the dark spots of our history’
...“No, no, because Napoleon has been settled with treaties at the end of the empire in 1815.”...
April 21, 2023
House & Home
Homes on screen: how scouts find the perfect film locations
...We’d love to have her in there.” The deal was struck, and a small speaking part secured alongside the fee....
May 26, 2023
FT Magazine
Inside the world’s oldest lithography store, printer to Giorgio de Chirico and Cy Twombly
...Napoleon was an early adopter, instructing his army to have transfer paper and portable presses brought to the battlefields so that artist-reporters could dispatch news of his successes....
August 5, 2023
FT MagazineTim Hayward
Restaurant review: Bouchon Racine — ‘as French as Fragonard’
...Ah, to the desserts, where the French themselves are prone to jeux d’esprit, vols de fantaisie and élans d’imagination. Where will Chef Harris take us?...
January 19, 2023

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