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...A decade ago, The End of Eddy took France’s literary scene by storm....
...Eastboundby Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore, Les Fugitives £10.99 Though first published in France 10 years ago, there is a contemporary resonance to this slender tale of a young Russian...
..., and sent to Ramón Quintana, who supervises large international banks....
...France, South America, Africa and elsewhere....
...Due to open June 18; double rooms from €550; oetkercollection.com Burgundy, France Como Hotels and Resorts is the Singapore-based hotel group behind Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos, the Shambala Retreat...
...Please sign up here Letter in response to this column: Why this Italian boss may not have time on his side / From Stéphane Magnan, Issy, France...
...Although France’s Essilor and Italy’s Luxottica hailed their merger in 2017, the decision for Mr Del Vecchio and Mr Sagnières, who ran Essilor before the merger, to share executive powers has put the two...
...Once one of France’s industrial powerhouses, Lagardère is now best-known for its Hachette publishing house and Relay newsagents as well as radio, sports and entertainment assets....
...Strands of memory unfurl — from Bourgeois’ childhood in France to her self-imposed exile in the US — alongside her thoughts on beauty and the purpose of art....
...Mr Del Vecchio’s holding company, Delfin, owns a third of the shares and has opposed the resolution....
...France’s Essilor, the biggest manufacturer of lenses, agreed a €50bn merger with Italy’s Luxottica, the leading consumer eyewear group, in early 2017....
...None of which was enough to persuade a group of asset managers, led by France’s Comgest, but including Legal & General and Schroders, to abandon their own support for a separate resolution seeking the appointment...
...The winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, shortlisted for 2017’s Man Booker International, is an erudite and timely reminder of the myriad linkages and crossovers between the cultures and peoples of east and...
...Italy’s Luxottica and France’s Essilor have agreed to one of Europe’s largest ever cross-border mergers, a €50bn deal that would create the global leader in the fast-growing eyewear industry....
...The astonishing Nairo Quintana, Colombia’s first Giro d’Italia winner (in 2014) and twice second in the Tour de France, has never ridden the Vuelta, and never raced up the Alto de Letras....
...Nairo Quintana, Alejandro Valverde and Vincenzo Nibali, the 2014 winner....
...She is unimpressed by Picasso and Dalí, but admires Magritte. Peggy Guggenheim buys her paintings. When Germany declares war on France, the German-born Ernst is interned in a detention camp....
...The Tour de France, as any of its billion armchair fans will tell you, is won and lost in the mountains....
...By John Burn-Murdoch and Gavin Jackson The winner of the Tour de France is typically the fastest climber up the winding paths of the Alps and the Pyrenees, but when the peloton flies down the Champs-Élysées...
...of France (2007) — but his latest book sees a return to his native UK, and an esoteric five-year mission to catalogue all 2,002 cols of the British Isles....
...The book is brilliant, funny and deliberately offensive — and offers a sharp insight into the troubles of modern France....
...Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community and Conflict, 1669-1848, by Kieko Matteson, Cambridge University Press, RRP£65/$99 Putting a long span of French history in a new light, environmental...
...and three seconds over the second-placed racer, Nairo Quintana of Colombia, with Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez in third....
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
...… The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs, by Andrew Hussey, Granta, RRP£25/ Faber, RRP$35 One of the most eye-catching developments in European politics, the rise of France’s...
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