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...Over one recent weekend in Port-au-Prince, Éric Jean Baptiste, a prominent politician, and his bodyguard were murdered by gangsters while driving through the capital in an armoured car....
...Upstairs, an exhibition space includes creations by Belgian architects such as Horta, but also Henry Van De Velde, Paul Hankar and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy....
...In 1867 Jean-Baptiste Guillot bred the first hybrid tea rose, “La France”, and in the same decade, Wiltshire farmer Henry Bennett formalised the breeding system and introduced 10 hybrid teas, from which...
...“People are coming back to landscapes and scenic wallpapers,” notes Jean-Baptiste Martin of Antoinette Poisson....
...Ongpin will also show a red chalk drawing of a fashionable young man reclining by Watteau’s pupil Jean-Baptiste Pater, which relates to one of his best works, “The Dance” (1725), a fête galante canvas acquired...
...We were drinking tea in the kitchen of the Henry Dickens Community Centre, named after the great author’s grandson, a local councillor and a champion of public housing....
...Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, court sculptor to Napoleon III, followed his patron into English exile and made classicised marble busts of the new industrial bourgeoisie such as “Henry James Turner” in unbuttoned...
...“Chinese enterprises have been much more careful choosing their targets in this environment,” says Henry Lau, co-managing partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm in Hong Kong....
...Brame & Lorenceau, for example, sold a collection of wall-based pâte de verre sculptures by Henry Cros (1840-1907)....
...Henry Pettifer, Christie’s head of Old Masters paintings, says the work was “realistically priced” this time around, at £4m-£6m, even though that would have represented an astonishing 88 per cent fall in...
...Jean-Baptiste de Chatillon, Peugeot’s chief financial officer, said last year that the sanctions had cut €10m a month from operating profit....
...The new millennium brought one vast task in particular – the transformation of the Church of Saint Jean-Baptiste in Bourbourg, between Calais and Dunkirk, part of which had been badly damaged during the...
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy...
...James Spencer Henry Edmond Marcel Thiérrée’s full name is roughly as improbable as his life story....
...In 2008 he designed a chapel for the Church of St Jean Baptiste in Bourbourg, northern France....
...“Look, Henry Moore spent his whole career making women in a landscape. I think he didn’t acknowledge fully the sexuality – they were almost asexual presences....
...They pierce the piece’s body and head with painful precision, as if re-enacting the agony suffered by Becket when King Henry II’s knights hacked at him with their swords....
...The model is Henry Diamond, who worked first as a stage hand and then as a photographer, as well as modelling for the artist. Freud fell out with him in 1970....
...He began his training with a Geneva miniaturist, then moved to Paris for three years as apprentice to the celebrated portrait miniaturist and printmaker Baptiste Masse....
...This somewhat manufactured record had been held by Henry Shelford and a group of friends who went to the Himalayas in 2004, trudged up a mountain with some folding dining tables and chairs, wine, dinner...
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