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...It is almost as if a job was kept open for him as he attended first the famous Lycée Louis-le-Grand, then, like his father, l’École Polytechnique, finally becoming the first Arnault to work in the watch...
...One French frigate, L’Oiseau, carted off 18,635 between 1759 and 1761 (as the naturalist Gerald Durrell noted when he described a visit here in 1976)....
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...Borne, who visited the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses with Darmanin to show their support, described the attacks on mayors as “intolerable”....
...His previous novels, The Gift of Rain (2007) and the Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), dealt with the Japanese wartime occupation of Malaya and its aftermath....
...Meanwhile, an attack on Saturday on the house of a Vincent Jeanbrun, a mayor in the southern Paris commune of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, was condemned by politicians....
...She was in her late fifties when it won her the Booker Prize in 2009. The second Booker would arrive with her follow-up, Bring up the Bodies....
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Shortlisted for this year’s Booker, A Passage North is an arresting and poignant reflection on the legacy of civil war....
...It had already raked in several awards before the English translation, At Night All Blood Is Black, won the International Booker Prize last week....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Kate Auspitz Author of ‘The Radical Bourgeoisie: the Ligue de l’Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic’Somerville, MA, US...
...By contrast, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, no ordinary opera, does not get ordinary treatment....
...promised to help Azibert get a job in Monaco in exchange for information related to another case, now dropped, in which Sarkozy had been accused of accepting illegal funds from Liliane Bettencourt, the L’...
...Gérald-Brice Viret, head of programming at Vivendi’s TV operation, says France’s broadcast regulations mean that CNews could never be anything like Fox News....
...A survey by Harris Interactive published by L’Opinion last week suggested Macron would only squeak into a second-round victory in May 2022 by 53 per cent to 47 per cent....
...In which film did Philip Seymour Hoffman play Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
...be assured of a place in the final, and if it is Macron that makes it through as well then he is currently forecast to win by as little as 53 per cent to 47 per cent, according to a Harris Interactive-L’...
..., revelling in his band’s instant rapport, plays like a man possessed, guitarist Julian Lage’s stinging lead and atmospheric Americana stand out, and Eric Harland is a force of nature on drums; pianist Gerald...
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...A mansion was built on the site of the ruin in the late 18th century, and added to over time, creating an L-shaped structure along the cliff....
...The book, which was published in English in 2018, won several awards and was shortlisted for last year’s International Man Booker prize....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Goldman Sachs to summarise: EBIT (+13.5% YoY growth) and retail cash flow slightly ahead of consensus, helped by delivering Booker synergies one year ahead of guidance....
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