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...The Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the school that recruits the self-reproducing French political elite, is being renamed and supposedly reformed....
...Hermès Twilly d’HermèsChristine Nagel has been doing wonderful things at Hermès since she became its new nose....
...ruinart.com The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Camille Claudel. Her sculptures are full of life and animation....
...“But I felt like I’d pretty much done all I could with it.”...
...Occupying seat number 13, she succeeded illustrious intellectuals such as Jean Racine and Paul Claudel....
...Paul Claudel, hostile brother of Rodin’s discarded artist mistress, dubbed him a “priapatriarche”, and while Prince Eugen of Sweden and Norway was eager to get his hands on a “Thinker”, he preferred not...
...Jeanne d’Arc is all religious élan, a product of Claudel’s increasing devotion towards the end of his life....
...Meanwhile Arte has recruited the art house director Bruno Dumont (whose latest film was Camille Claudel 1915, starring Juliet Binoche) to make P’tit Quinquin, a mini-series about a gang of hooligans in Boulogne...
...Philippe Claudel’s latest novel is ‘The Investigation’ (MacLehose Press)...
...Written in 1935 and extended in 1944, it once sounded progressive, we are told, as it embellished the fate of the martyred maid of Orleans with precious poetry by Paul Claudel....
...Even today, Adjani, who won her first of a record four Césars (France’s equivalent of an Oscar) for Possession, says she’d never take on a similar role....
...A 1980 controversy saw Daniel Mesguich’s production of Tête d’Or banned by Claudel’s heirs after just one performance – with the support of 400 authors, not least Jean-Paul Sartre....
...Responsible for this double mauvais quart d’heure – it lasts 27 minutes, or perhaps aeons – is Edwaard Liang. Another entr’acte. Thoughts of tunnelling out....
...Touraine Azay-le-Rideau, Camille Claudel 2000 Pascal Pibaleau Irma Fingal Rock £7.45 Great, piercing, off-dry Chenin with great layers of interest....
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