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...“Ten years ago, we had concerns about brand safety on social media, but we worked with industry and the major players,” says Asmita Dubey, chief digital officer at L’Oréal....
...But the best lines come from this loony bliss-out of a backstage theatre drama written and directed in 1950 by Joseph L Mankiewicz....
...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....
...And I find Stephen Colbert’s Late Show a great deal more compelling now that he’s moved into his basement and his guests have nothing much to shill....
...The French energy group Total pledged €100m and the Bettencourt Meyers family — the largest shareholder in the cosmetics company L’Oréal — said that alongside L’Oréal and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation...
...“It was a moment of distress and sorrow,” says Elisabeth Ponsolle des Portes, who heads the Comité Colbert, the French luxury association. “Everyone had tears in their eyes.”...
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Saint-Gobain, founded by Colbert, is today Europe’s largest distributor of glass and building materials by sales....
...The satirist H L Mencken once said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Like all good wit, it contained a truth....
...Ramsay 8 The Square 9 Marcus 10 Medlar Best for business: 1 The Wolseley 2 The Delaunay 3 The Square 4 Galvin La Chapelle 5 Bleeding Heart 6 The Don 7 Coq d’Argent 8 Scott’s 9 L’...
...Starry chefs Shinichi Sato Passage 53, two Michelin stars, 53 passage des Panoramas, 2nd; +33 1 4233 0435 … Yoshitake Hiroki Sola, one Michelin star, 12 rue de l’Hôtel-Colbert, 5th; +33 1 43 29 59...
...France boasts world-class companies such as Air Liquide, Danone and L’Oréal that are emerging stronger than ever from the crisis....
...For years, Paris has traded on its reputation as the City of Light and even as the city of l’amour. But for a growing number of Chinese tourists, it is becoming the city of crime....
...The Comité Colbert, founded in 1954 to represent l’art de vivre française, recently opened its membership to other European countries, including Germany, Belgium, Poland and Hungary....
...He was to return to this theme in 1934 with his film Cleopatra, with Claudette Colbert wearing jewellery to rival the treasures of the tomb....
...For example, homard à l’americaine, boeuf à la bordelaise are correct, while Homard à l’Americaine and Boeuf à la Bordelaise are incorrect. Quiche Lorraine is marginal....
...Above his desk hangs a portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister who pioneered the interventionist economic policy that has since become the scourge of many foreign investors....
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