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...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
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...Alongside are Degas’ portraits of Eugène Manet, the artist’s brother and eventually Morisot’s husband, and of Morisot’s sister; more straightforward exercises in naturalism, they attest to close circles...
...The blaze sent the 19th-century spire erected by French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc crashing into the interior, destroying the roof, altar and much of the nave....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...The stake dates back to 1974, when Nestlé first bought into L’Oréal at the request of Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L’Oréal founder Eugène Schueller, with the aim of preventing a potential nationalisation...
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
...Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz is as slight a confection as Italian verismo has to offer, a simple tale of gentle, young love among the cherry trees....
...The exhibition invites us to see Poussin as Eugène Delacroix did: as “one of the greatest innovators”....
...Maurice’s father, Billy, possessed the family artistic streak as a lace designer; one of his drawings in white ink on black card employs a dazzling trompe-l’oeil effect with its rendering of fabric creases...
...“They send a signal from the administration to the public and to career employees in the federal government that there’s a new sheriff in town.”...
...L’Aller Retour on Rue Charles-François Dupuis was a cosy meat restaurant where we’d take foreign visitors....
...Pushkin will like the idea: his taste for French food led him to stuff his hero Eugene Onegin, on the razz in St Petersburg, with Strasbourg pie (foie gras, truffles, grouse and pork, wrapped in pastry)...
...He documented his collection in a book released last year to coincide with the first exhibition of his rings, at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris....
...So did the Bettencourt family, heirs to L’Oréal, while the oil and gas company Total announced it would contribute €100m....
...At the centre of his 1911 masterpiece “L’Atelier Rouge” hangs a black and yellow band of Ottoman velvet, as prominent as Matisse’s own pictures represented in the painting....
...Eugene was kind. He was also a drug dealer. Bush became an addict, and when Thomas was in her teens Eugene was imprisoned. Thomas moved in with her grandmother....
...“Pirates africains enlevant une jeune femme” plays on the contrast between black and white skin, “L’Indienne mordue par un tigre” on the texture of animal pelt against vulnerable flesh....
...Bettencourt was the daughter of chemist Eugène Schueller, who founded the company in 1909....
...He was a close friend of her father, served as a minister under Charles de Gaulle and became deputy chairman of L’Oréal....
...Key graphs: Liliane Henriette Charlotte Schueller was born on October 21 1922, the only child of Louise Madeleine Berthe and Eugene Schueller, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded what was to become the...
...More recent pieces have remixed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with “random readings” taken from Burroughs and Huxley (1984’s L.S.D.), deconstructed Eugene O’Neill with techniques derived from Japanese kabuki...
...Both written by the Romanian-French avant-gardist Eugène Ionesco, they have been paired nonstop in the tiny venue for exactly 60 years....
...Corot’s calm, classicised 1820s plein air landscape “Ariccia, Palais Chigi” is displayed alongside seascapes by Monet’s Le Havre teacher Eugène Boudin; on one, Michel forged Monet’s signature....
...And then it broke into the jumping dance of “L’Âme au Mali”, complete with rave drops; frenetic, over-the-top soloing from Chedid; and inspirational rap....
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