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...It was strange to see Paris’s Haussmannian facades so frontally, flat and continuous behind the river, as in a child’s drawing....
...Set on the banks of the Reuss river, the 300-year-old chalet oozes charm, with its exposed timber beams, geothermal heating and antique skis mounted on the walls....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
..., while planetary deities and personifications of the seasons and rivers — Milan’s Po as a bull — spill from cloud banks and trompe l’oeil cornices....
...Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World, by Laurence C Smith, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 368 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Paris bureau chief and author...
...Valuation and scenarios: We use a DCF model with an 8.6% WACC and 4% terminal growth to derive our 2500p price target....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Increased focus on the home, reversing some L-T adverse trends....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...On the Brooklyn side, I swim for the length of several Olympic pools alongside a giant liner docked at the cruise terminal. Later, luxury apartment blocks announce Williamsburg....
...What do with Refinitiv’s main product The Eikon terminal is simply a bad version of a Bloomberg terminal. Will that ever change? DD take: Nope....
...Eragny, a village on the river Epte upstream from Giverny, was Pissarro’s home from 1884 — Monet paid for his house there....
...We were on the river an hour and a half....
...Now the Sibuets are focused on rolling out their concept, under a new brand, Terminal Neige....
...And the janitors and the secretaries and the co-eds enjoying their barbecue out on the college lawn, who find themselves in the line of fire emanating from the lecture hall because li’l Johnny-from-Lubbock...
...“La Belgique — c’est à moi,” he declared to his Italian pupil Paolo Pejrone in an atypical flash of pride....
...Just the odd vibration passing through the G.L.A.C.’s innards, set off by huge things, things at the scale of the city....
...It was tramline C that took me to the Miroir d’eau, the “water mirror”, which sits between the river and Bordeaux’s best façades on Place de la Bourse....
...But he made his billions after he was fired by his Wall Street employer and started a company of his own that sold information via computer terminals bearing his name....
...The weekly magazine L’Express said in an article on Wednesday that a hacking attack had successfully inserted a computer worm on terminals of senior advisers to Mr Sarkozy, accessing secret documents and...
...Anke L. Nolting, New York, NY, US...
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
...Analysis of 500 scales showed that salmon from the River Tyne in Northumberland were swimming towards the Norwegian Sea, whereas fish from the River Frome in Dorset were feeding close to Iceland....
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