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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...
...The Gérald Genta dial name passed to the Italian jewellery house Bulgari in 2000, which LVMH then bought for $5.2bn in 2011 — the year of Genta’s death....
...However, during last year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève — the Oscars of the watch world — a new type of home-build kit beat the established ready-made creators, such as L’Epée 1839, Matthew Norman...
...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)....
...I’ve often steered friends and visitors to its gloriously un-chic bar for the Taylor-and-Burton patina it gives. But the 75 rooms were always a bit too tired to warrant recommendation....
...Borne, who visited the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses with Darmanin to show their support, described the attacks on mayors as “intolerable”....
...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....
...We subsequently agreed that they would create an office for themselves in one part of the ‘L’ and a studio for Marloe in the other.”...
...The takeover of Debenhams in the mid-1980s epitomised the buccaneering spirit of the times, with Halpern controversially enlisting the help of Gerald Ronson to beat off competition from Mohammed al-Fayed...
...Hip hop’s pulse and creative palettes have always had a presence in the work of US musician/songwriter/producer Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton), though his varied projects — and bands including Gnarls Barkley...
...All profits from the sale go towards the programme. michaelkors.com; wfp.org L is for LemlemModel Liya Kebede has made social change central to her fashion brand Lemlem, which she founded in 2007 to preserve...
...On the day of my visit alone, the multimillion-pound line-up of classic Ferraris awaiting meticulous, ground-up rebuilds included a rare Dino L-series (one of the very first made, and the actual car displayed...
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...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....
...This season the retailer is stocking voluminous silk-blend opera skirts by Erdem, from a collection inspired by the belle époque costumes in Luchino Visconti’s 1976 film L’Innocente....
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...highly sociable start to the winter season [that it usually is],” says Helen Maixner, a Brussels-based Bostonian who bought an apartment in Gstaad nearly 50 years ago, when Hollywood stars such as Richard Burton...
...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’...
...Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ms Chan typifies this trend, owning a collection that includes watches by Richard Mille, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Gerald Genta and Panerai....
...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....
...Those that are already in insolvency processes, such as Debenhams and Arcadia, owner of the Topshop, Burton and other chains, will close more stores....
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