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...“Suddenly it dawned on me that if I arrived in Paris without going to this school I’d be nothing but a young man from Amiens, a marooned intruder.”...
...Another left, and I’d be in the Italian Renaissance, or the German....
...Enter the “presumed lightweight”, rich underachiever Franklin D Roosevelt, whose upbringing, we learn, included a mother who endlessly told him how special he was....
...“They’d both lost faith in the institutions of the world, and that made them partners, even accomplices, in a daily practice of defiance,” Li writes....
...One was that we’d get killed. The other was that we might have to kill someone.”...
...He stands out much more now than in his own time, when non-graduates weren’t rare (Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Ernest Bevin)....
...Ernest Doku, head of commercial for broadband and mobiles at price-comparison company Uswitch, said it lacked “data-driven justification”....
...On a sweltering summer evening on the terrace of Le Comptoir des Saints-Pères, a neighbourhood brasserie where F Scott Fitzgerald, concerned over the size of his manhood, once exposed himself to Ernest Hemingway...
...European gems in which Bell has always excelled: Beethoven’s exuberant Violin Sonata No 1, composed in the final years of the 18th century, via glorious sonatas from Robert Schumann and César Franck, to Ernest...
...Also, nobody at any point told me that Ernest Hemingway had eaten here, which, whenever in Spain, I take as a tremendous recommendation....
...The Crafts Council in the UK is “more focused on contemporary crafts you’d see in a London art gallery,” says Carpenter....
...“You’d get a lot of loaded Americans over,” said one senior government figure....
...I felt I’d been set a challenge.”...
...Ernest Shackleton’s surgeon had an archive, and it was for sale. Leonard and Virginia Woolf printed an edition of TS Eliot’s “The Waste Land” by hand....
...Alongside us on the startline will be classics like Paul Moxon’s Amokura, a 50ft Bermudan yawl built in 1939 for Lord Mountbatten’s aide de camp Ernest Harston....
...Nagelmackers knew that passengers disembarking from the Orient Express would need somewhere to stay in Istanbul, and in 1895 he opened the Pera Palace hotel, which has played host to Ernest Hemingway, Mata...
...Still, if you are à la recherche d’un autoroute service station snack, it is the perfect option....
...A star of the inaugural Impressionist exhibition in 1874, the painting stars again in Paris 1874, next year’s blockbuster restaging of that show at the Musée d’Orsay and Washington’s National Gallery of...
...“I’d cross a bridge at night, and walk across the steel works . . . It always seemed to be rather gloomy and raining, and I’d think ‘God this is beautiful’”....
...projects include a restoration of the facade of Hôtel Solvay: Horta’s grand town house on the stately Avenue Louise for Armand Solvay — son of the chemist, industrialist and founder of the Solvay group Ernest...
...“Years ago I’d have suggested Paul Newman.” Ernest Shackleton was all about discovery. And today, nothing feels quite so novel as the solitude found in the icy wilderness....
...Where to go next: The hallowed La Rotonde, whose habitués once included Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, is a two-minute walk away....
...Spanish MEP Ernest Urtasun told me that “national regulators want exchanges to choose their member state”....
...Sebastian Payne You (laughter) know exactly what I’m going to say here, which was the Ernest Hemingway “gradually, then suddenly”....
...In 1968, she’d offered a typically Didionesque glimpse of her inner self as a writer. It reads like a warning against the sometimes sentimental attempts by her admirers to canonise her as Saint Joan....
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