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...But French governments more regularly followed the approach pioneered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s first minister, who believed the state should support and protect the nation’s industries....
...The 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin painted plenty of peaches, melons and pears....
...For ultimate inspiration, I am looking to the 18th-century French furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené’s niche de chien, or dog kennel, created for Marie Antoinette and now in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the French junior minister responsible for commerce, told the FT that Paris broadly supports EU plans to hammer out a tariff-reduction deal with the US on industrial goods....
...“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing,” said Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister....
...If Jean-Baptiste de Franssu marked himself for his effectiveness as president of Efama, he would not award himself a high score. He has not been good enough, he remarks....
...Jean-Michel Loehr, chief of industry and government relations at RBC Dexia, says: “I am confident that it could turn into an opportunity for the European fund industry....
...In the same class as her was Michel Troisgros, grandson of Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, who had opened Maison Troisgros as a humble café in 1930, and handed it on to his sons Pierre [Michel’s father] and Jean...
...In the hallways hang old masters loaned by the Colnaghi gallery, including a large oil painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Huet, worth more than £140,000....
...Mr Boulos said he hoped Mr Préval would accept the findings and stay in Haiti, unlike predecessors Jean-Baptiste Aristide, now in South Africa, and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who lives in France....
...Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, warned last week that some European countries risked losing the confidence of the markets because of excessive deficit and debt levels....
...Born the son of a wigmaker and milliner in Paris just before the revolution, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot pursued an ancien régime classical training in Rome, then spent a lifetime depicting everyday landscapes...
...Robert Carsen, whose staging of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea won recent approval at Glyndebourne, directs a new production with choreography by Jean-Claude Gallotta....
.... £4,000-£4,500. www.thesilverfund.com Confiturier, Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot Used for serving stewed fruits or jams, this French silver confiturier with 12 accompanying vermeil silver spoons was made...
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