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...Jeanne du Barry was a courtesan in 1760s Paris who became Louis XV’s favourite mistress....
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...“This idea of the eternal wanderer, or l’étranger, stayed with him his whole life.”...
...Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s L’Amour s’éveille and La Sirène, a dramatic...
...One owner who likes to race his jet skis with his friends had requested a GPS-controlled lighting system; LED strips under the hulls would change colour according to their position in the race....
...Haggard “Jeanne Duval” in billowing crinoline suggests a wilting Infanta and, in a dazzling group of pictures, huge-eyed Morisot, always in black, here concealed behind a fan, there with mantilla-like lace...
...to mean a compromise on style. theofennell.com Cartridge salt & pepper grinders by Forwood Design, £165 Made of Japanese Tamo Ash and stainless steel. forwooddesign.com Hand-painted platter by Gordon Hull...
...“Jeanne Dielman was a bit different from La chambre because it was totally controlled,” Mangolte says....
...No matter how much dry powder that pirate ship has, it’s not going anywhere fast if the hull is crusted with barnacles....
...In August, it was revealed that her business, Lévy Gorvy, already a collaboration between Lévy and the art market expert Brett Gorvy, was to join forces with two more seasoned dealers: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn...
...L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped used 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and 3,000 meters of red rope of the same fabric....
...The conversation was awkward and angry as the husband realises that Jeanne has suddenly become a stranger. With only three characters, the play centred on Jeanne, who was in every scene....
...The top lot was Picasso’s “L’Étreinte” (1969), a painting of lovers in a passionate embrace, which sold for £12.6m (£14.7m with fees, est £11m-£16m)....
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...“[Coco Chanel] was jealous of me,” Cardin told L’Officiel earlier this year. “I was extremely handsome, young, and talented. And she was, well, of a certain age.”...
...“There are numerous restaurants nearby: Sauveur, one of the city’s oldest pizzerias, Épicerie L’Idéale, La Mercerie, Restaurant Fémina… And lots of others....
...Born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour’s decorative influence was once writ large across the palace of Versailles....
...Rol-Tanguy, using pseudonyms such as Jeanne, Yvette and Lucie, pursued her dangerous work during the war....
...I know my way around a P&L, though when I gave up life in the boardroom to become a full-time comic and public speaker the one commodity I didn’t anticipate running out of was the public....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San Francisco; Jane Robinson, London Polymath 1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull...
...“Banks must align their lending with the science,” said Jeanne Martin, a campaign manager at ShareAction. “If Barclays supports the Paris Agreement, it will support this resolution.”...
...And a new logo, “JL”, was woven into knitwear — which seemed an odd bit of rebranding for a house whose existing logo, Paul Iribe’s “La femme et l’enfant” (1924), based on a 1907 image of Jeanne Lanvin and...
...Her introduction to the art world came through Isamu Noguchi, who introduced Hurtado to Jeanne Reynal. Through Reynal, Hurtado met Marcel Duchamp, who gave her a foot massage....
...Julian Hull is Head of Sales at independent fundamental research firm Stockviews. He previously spent a decade at Redburn in equity sales....
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