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...The supremely cool Parisian DJ Claire-Marie Rutledge gave it a style refresh in 2022, and now it’s often booked close to solid, especially at weekends....
...Her decision to step down, and her frank explanation, are of a piece with this new iteration — not of female leadership, but human leadership....
...Two Parisians, Marie and Anaïs, ask me to take a photo of them next to the monument. Neither is a fan, although Marie’s absent son is....
...“This law affects 66mn Germans . . . and there is enormous disquiet,” said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a senior FDP MP....
...Mauritius Vallée de Farney eau de parfum ($93 for 50ml) is an island escape from Maison Louis Marie that recreates the nature reserve of the same name that’s home to more than 100 plant species....
...His immediate predecessor, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, met union leaders for informal discussions during her seven weeks in the role....
...During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette evaded the Parisian mob through a secret door in her bedroom at Versailles....
...France isn’t the UK or US, where the power of social class or money is frank....
...His sassiness reached a peak in May after the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier was told he would not be welcome in Kyiv and Olaf Scholz said he would not visit Ukraine over the affront....
...Newport was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Kim, a computer programmer, and Frank, a sociologist who would spend almost three decades as editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll....
...Boney enjoyed Betsy’s frank and irreverent company so much that he would become impatient when she wasn’t around....
...Uber has hired Goldman alum Sarah-Marie Martin as a senior executive in its corporate finance and capital markets group, per Bloomberg....
...“When she speaks, she’s frank. She says what she thinks,” says Niel, whereas Macron “doesn’t like French people, he just denigrates them”....
...It was Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine’s father, and I remember watching him give a big open-air speech in Paris in that election. But Jean-Marie Le Pen was trounced....
...sadiecoles.com, to May 22 Frank Walter and Luc Tuymans (David Zwirner) A posthumous exhibition of the Antiguan polymath Frank Walter illuminates the breadth and depth of the late artist’s works....
...The story is different in the Alps, says Roddy Aris, a partner at Knight Frank....
...In 1790 Goya, dressed as a bullfighter, holds a palette picking out hues from his multicoloured jacket; he is frank, curious, beneath a too-large hat....
...There’s little in the way of thrills and spills in Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s latest, Noah’s Gold (Macmillan, £12.99). What there is, instead, is plenty of wit and heart....
...In Sarasota, Florida, the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens are bringing garden watchers up with a bump. Lichtenstein and Monet?...
...The last one that really surprised me was about Frank Lloyd Wright. Everyone knows his work, but it focused on his relationship with nature, which was something I’d not heard much about....
...Postwar, she worked hard to catch up, even winning a scholarship to Marie Rambert’s London school in 1948 but it had all come too late, and Rambert herself broke the bad news....
...On the advertising guru Frank Lowe’s yacht, The Floating Pound, Helmut Newton and Helvin gambolled with the others on the decks. “Newton’s role was to be life and soul of the party,” recalls Helvin....
...In 1948, they moved to Paris for six years and became part of a charmed circle that included the artist Marie Raymond (the mother of Yves Klein), Jean Genet and fellow Cuban painter Wifredo Lam....
...The lust list currently includes a Josef Frank découpage Flora cabinet, a curvy 1950s Alvar Aalto pine screen and immaculate Hans Wegner armchairs in oak and cane....
...In San Gimignano, roughly between Florence and Siena, Knight Frank is selling an 18th-century farmhouse with five bedrooms for €2.95m....
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