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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)....
...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....
...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...
...It’s rather trompe l’oeil.” The reading room that Phil Game built in a client’s garden for their punkish daughter was similarly eye-catching....
...“[L]eaving citizens to their own devices is not the way of the Chinese Communist party,” concludes Vines in Defying the Dragon....
...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....
...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....
...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’...
...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....
...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’...
...Edward Hurst’s barn is a wonderful source of antiques and inspiration, and Bayntun Flowers is an artisan grower with impeccable taste. An indulgence I would never forgo is the ballet....
...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....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, by KS Komireddi, Hurst, RRP£20 Written with passion and savagery, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira...
...Born in 1926 in the Belgian village of Fontaine-l’Evêque, Frère was the youngest of three children....
...Gerald Mason, director of T&L Sugars, has been vocal in blaming protectionist EU sugar and trade policies for boosting beet sugar producers at the expense of sugar cane refiners....
...The latest of these is True Fire, premiered in Los Angeles last year and now getting its first UK performance with Gerald Finley as soloist at this BBC Symphony Orchestra concert....
...However, Gerald Brockhurst, despite borrowing the misty, steel-blue mountains beloved of Leonardo as a backdrop, falls on the sword of his own perfectionist technique....
...The hard-working cast did what it could, with Gerald Finley as a robust Tell and John Relyea as a formidable Gesler....
...As historian L Carl Brown has written: “Other parts of the world have been at one time or another more severely buffeted by an imperial power, but no area has remained so unremittingly caught up in multilateral...
...We were living almost “off the grid” — no phone reception or TV — even as we were surrounded by L’Occitane toiletries and very fine wine....
...More columns at ft.com/lander L’Assiette Champenoise 40 Avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, 51430 Tinqueux, Reims, France; +33 3 26 84 64 64; assiettechampenoise.com Photographs: Gerald Malaise...
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