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...Curator Adora Mba has gathered work from across Africa and its diaspora, including Nigeria, Ghana, Canada, the UK and France....
...In France, the trend has yet to catch on (in part because a tradition of small artisanal cider makers has remained.)...
...The sport was hard to disentangle from horsebacked war: cavalry regiments across the Empire hunted with hounds for sport, as did Wellington twice a week during his campaign in France....
...It was the Romantics, not just bovine gentry, who cursed the industrial revolution and thought a rainbow was sullied if it was explained. It is the liberal left who give Pinker the hardest ride....
...Queen Victoria may have appeared in Paisley-made shawls in public, but the gentry – like Lady Bertram of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park – coveted the real thing....
...(FT, NYT) Land-owning gentry Half of England is owned by less than 1 per cent of its population, according to a new study, which estimated that if the land were distributed evenly across the entire population...
...He had a likeable nature and wit and was appreciated by the local gentry....
...At Meseberg, France and Germany made a welcome step in that direction....
...The world of the French provincial struggling gentry in the 19th century was feudalism’s distant heir. Marry that daughter off; ensure the future of the crumbling race....
...Cimiez (Queen Victoria’s old haunt), which has fin de siècle apartments and villas, is for “the local gentry”, says Balkin....
...France has had enough brushes with zealots of left and right to keep it honest. None of this is argued with certainty....
...He finished his training in France and Holland and returned to London to live on Fleet Street and establish his private practice....
...My father-in-law was a footman to the gentry when he was young, and one of his regular duties was to polish up silver from the vaults for his lordship to give as gifts....
...Councillor Bernard Gentry had a fight on his hands when he stepped into a Brixton church to convince a crowd of Londoners to vote for Britain to leave the EU....
...It became the surf capital of France in the 1960s (legend has it that Peter Viertel, Deborah Kerr’s husband, was the first to ride its waves in 1957) and, for many decades now, visiting European gentry have...
...Both Michael and his successor chose their wives at a “brideshow”, in which the daughters of provincial gentry were summoned to the Kremlin....
...This is the problem facing Frances Wray and her mother; fallen gentry, forced to take in lodgers....
...Only 3 per cent of the population had a vote, and a system of fiendish intricacy, evolved over centuries, meant that “pocket boroughs” were essentially in the gift of the landed gentry, while tiny “rotten...
...For decades, Thierry Afschrift’s boutique tax law practice was among the best-kept secrets of Belgium’s wealthy elite, his name passed discreetly between the landed gentry and industrialists in Brussels’...
...protests Frances de la Tour’s Lady Dorothy Stacpoole just before the interval of Alan Bennett’s new play. Too late, your ladyship; too, too late....
...The fact that there was no emperor around then did not prevent rigid class divisions; you only have to go to France today to see you do not need a monarch to produce endemic snobbery....
...In centuries past, Europe’s moneyed gentry used to undertake grand tours of the Continent....
...I am afraid that there has been a decline of the aristocracy and gentry in Britain owing to their snobbish aversion to commercialese....
...And, for a brief moment, the line between Grimaldi and gentry fades. Ducasse, too, delights in the display, but there’s only so much enjoyment he can allow himself....
...Saint Jean, Cap Ferrat, Côte d’Azur, France, €7.5m Where: 15 minutes from Nice airport and 12km from Monaco, near Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the south of France....
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