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...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...The 37-year-old found the apartment through one such character: 80-year-old antique dealer Alain Finard, whose shop, Galerie Alain et Gerard, has been an institution on Rue de Beaune since the late 1970s...
...In front of Les Invalides there is a café with a big terrace called Café de l’Esplanade, with the same owners as Hôtel Costes....
...The story began with Jean Vuarnet, a ski racer from Morzine who invented the position de l’oeuf, an aerodynamic tuck that helped him win Olympic gold at Squaw Valley in 1960....
...Vins, had made L’Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...Today’s visitors are “completely enveloped” by Hugo’s decor at Hauteville House, says Gérard Audinet, director of Maisons de Victor Hugo....
...Hector’s, in leafy De Beauvoir Town, offers more limited fare, but its excellent selection of bottles and buzzing atmosphere makes me want to return time and again....
...To find joie de vivre. I think we learnt that from Covid.”...
...In 1970, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that society treated the old person as a “piece of rubbish” with “miserable” living standards....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...odeur de l’argent: a scent based on “the memory of a well-worn dollar bill”, which was presented at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...I live in De Beauvoir, in east London, and I’m looking forward to walking from east to west along the Regent’s Canal. It will be my first Christmas in our own family home. I enjoy decorating the house....
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...The awards were created in memory of the late Gerard Basset, himself such a keen wine student that his many titles included Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, Wine MBA, Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole...
...Slimani’s first novel, Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014, later translated into English as Adèle) recounts a woman’s endless string of joyless sexual encounters....
...In 2014, Brochard was awarded a chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite and in 2018 was made an officier des arts et des lettres....
...She was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, whom she read before Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, another revelation. “How I view my life as a woman, it’s Simone de Beauvoir....
...Gerard de Graaf reckons Europe has all the elements to be a successful technology centre: top universities, good public services, a strong industrial base and expertise in healthcare and energy....
...Teibert liked Gauby’s biodynamic wines so much that, in 2005, he set up Domaine de l’Horizon in the same village, Calce....
...Café de l’Esplanade , 7th arr. La Rotonde, 6th arr. Le Stresa , 8th arr. Foreigners often mock the French working lunch....
...Simone de Beauvoir, ‘L’invitée’, Folio, £11.75, amazon.co.uk “All those things that nobody needs. So much crap in the stores, scented candles, stupid gadgets....
...The news of Amber’s investment was first reporting by French publication L’Agefi....
...Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, said: “The best chef of the century has just bowed out....
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