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...This summer it becomes the 88-room Hôtel du Couvent, the latest creation of Valéry Grégo, the maverick hotelier behind Le Pigalle in Paris and Les Roches Rouges in Saint-Raphaël....
...Additional reporting by Chloe Cornish in Mumbai and John Reed in New Delhi...
...“Today, issues of love mostly reside in the domain of commercial culture, in soap operas and romantic novellas,” says Gregos....
...“You have to change your product range,” says Mr Grego of Generali. “A number of products are simply not viable any more.” Cost-cutting is also prevalent....
...In the latter, the Christ Child is clearly torn between the proffered milk and the basket of fruits held by the infant St John the Baptist....
...Nearby, and dating from the same period, is “St John Crysostom and Saints”, where – unusually – the main saint is shown in shadow, and busy writing....
...There is a pyramid built by the praetor Gaius Cestius as his tomb in 12BC, the Protestant cemetery where John Keats is buried and one of Rome’s great basilicas, St Paul Outside the Walls....
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