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...Because English has both Germanic and French origins, Anglos will recognise many words in both languages (Bett is German for bed, message is French for message) but they will stumble over many others (lit...
...He was a close friend of her father, served as a minister under Charles de Gaulle and became deputy chairman of L’Oréal....
...Starring Geraldine Chaplin as Gabrielle Chanel (Coco’s birth name), it depicts the designer’s 1954 comeback, which was panned by the French but embraced in the US....
...It is tempting these days to consider air shows – and especially the world’s oldest and biggest, the Paris-Le Bourget Salon International de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace (SIAE) – as an expensive networking...
...It was at Le Violon d’Ingres one Sunday that I got an enduring glimpse of what l’art-de-vivre a la française is all about....
...As directeur de l’industrie he had to sort out the 1984 collapse of the Creusot-Loire heavy engineering group, which still remains the biggest industrial bankruptcy suffered by France....
...The ruling also means she will lose her seat on the L’Oréal board and will no longer head the family holding company....
...They also control the group in partnership with Nestlé, the Swiss food giant that owns nearly 30 per cent of L’Oréal....
...Paul Betts is the Financial Times’ Senior Correspondent in Paris paul.betts@ft.com...
...It was supposed to establish a new industry ranking beyond five stars for establishments that displayed what the judges called “l’excellence à la française”....
...Paul Betts is a senior FT correspondent based in Paris paul.betts@ft.com...
...This was followed by a 1999 Grand Vin de Beaune Grèves Vigne de L’Enfant Jésus. I could drink this delicious wine just for its name....
...Like Bocuse, he was an eccentric figure, embodying what the French call “l’art de vivre à la française”....
...Paul Betts is a senior FT correspondent paul.betts@ft.com...
...His mentors, he says, were Serge Gainsbourg, who spent the last months of his life at L’Espérance, and Rostropovich, another regular of his Vézelay haven....
...It is now backfiring on the company that embraced it – L’Oréal. Poetic justice, at last....
...The conventional wisdom is that the Swiss are unlikely to bid for L’Oréal....
...While the French family owns 31 per cent of L’Oréal, Nestlé controls 30 per cent. The conventional wisdom is that the Swiss are unlikely to bid for L’Oréal....
...Her task, she adds, was to reinvest the dividends of Mrs Bettencourt’s substantial holding in L’Oréal....
...Her task, she adds, was to reinvest the dividends of Mrs Bettencourt’s holding in L’Oréal....
...Geraldine Larkin The highlight of this year’s Decorex, the interior design show, will be the launch of Geraldine Larkin’s home collection....
...L’Oréal is essentially a mass market business and it would certainly not fit into LVMH’s luxury business model....
...Its core French shareholders, L’Oréal and Total, are divesting, and Sanofi-Aventis has opted for the “Anglo-Saxon” practice of splitting the two top roles by appointing a non-executive chairman alongside...
...Perhaps a tad harsh but the proposed initial public offering of L’Occitane, an upmarket French cosmetics retailer, is a coup for the Chinese city....
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