Hints and tips:
...L’Astrance is rather upscale and best suited for a celebratory dinner, a birthday or a date you’d like to impress....
...Even the “bedtime story” card left at turndown was about Helene Kröller-Möller, who amassed 88 paintings by Van Gogh, now on display at the museum bearing her name in Otterlo, 80km east of Amsterdam....
...As Hélène Roux, whose family has managed the local hotel La Colombe d’Or for generations, put it to Farber: “[Fauré] totally adored him....
...Taylor has certainly immersed himself in Paris, having spent all this summer there, drawing inspiration from the Impressionists, Expressionists and Fauvists in its museums, notably the Musée d’Orsay....
...The second was a heartbreak: after separating from Hélène, he’d fallen in love with a woman called Pascale, perhaps the love of his life. But in 1999, she died of breast cancer at the age of 40....
...Chaumet has also just opened the Paris private salon above its boutique to the public for Un Âge d’Or (A Golden Age), showcasing the house’s jewels from the 1970s....
...Second, that her mother Helene Berman was a successful fashion designer and so fashion was a world she understood....
...He was like, ‘There is a force d’inertie.’”...
...When I’d had enough for the day, I’d stop at a locally owned lodge, no reservation required and consequently no need for a heavy rucksack stuffed with food and camping equipment....
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...His mother took her life in 1968, and his father died in 1982, shortly after he’d finished telling his son as much of his story as they could both bear....
...Voltaire’s lover, the Marquise du Châtelet, held a salon there in the 18th century, while the owners before Sheikh Hamad were Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, who welcomed the city’s gratin there for...
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...“I’d heard the name,” says Ireland, “but as I slowly began to document the buildings, it became clearer the effect he’d had on the city, especially through the private homes he built....
...For French chef Hélène Darroze, 2021 started with a bang. Well, two bangs, actually. In January, her Paris flagship, Marsan, was awarded its second Michelin star....
...You’d get called to his office and, whether the discussion lasted ten minutes or two hours, you always learned something new from him.” Eventually, these bonds would fray....
...It’s one of the joys of the area that it doesn’t have a higher profile – move those beaches just across the Bristol channel into north Cornwall and they’d be heaving....
...(The emotionally constipated Carolyn has long since supplanted Villanelle as the character I’d like to know better)....
...What expensive piece of equipment do the kitchens of Hélène Darroze at The Connaught in London, Skibo Castle in Scotland and a new five-star hotel in Zanzibar have in common?...
...We are on day one of the Rallye des Princesses, an all-female, five-day classic car rally that this year is being run along the Côte d’Opale, from Paris to La Baule through Normandy and Brittany....
...Last year, Vuitton carried off two of the prizes at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (where I serve as president of the jury)....
...But the restaurant — with a maître d’ directing waiters and menus with individual dishes — is a relatively modern invention, appearing in Paris at the end of the 18th century....
...“Our clients and collectors have a lot in common and, quite naturally, clients are influenced by this iconic style when buying contemporary jewellery,” says chief executive Hélène Poulit-Duquesne....
...“Everyone thought they’d come out of lockdown and the independent shops would all be gone,” she adds....
...In the 1860s, the chef Auguste Escoffier centred one of his most celebrated desserts around them: Poires Belle Hélène, or poached pears served with vanilla ice cream and a rich chocolate sauce....
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