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...Additional reporting by David Pilling in London, Andres Schipani in N’Djamena, and Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg...
...In 1986, two-thirds of the painting was gifted to the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City by local collectors Joseph and Ethel Atha....
...Notable clients began flocking: not just Yovanovitch, but Jacques Grange, François-Joseph Graf and Vincent Van Duysen, as well as fashion figures including Pieter Mulier and Marc Jacobs....
...I was introduced to his work by the late Joseph Ettedgui, for whom he used to make leather coats, jackets, parkas, gilets and — yes — blousons....
...When then French president François Hollande threatened to increase taxes on carried interest a decade ago, several senior private equity executives moved from Paris to London....
...First out of the gate in September was One Sloane, the maiden UK foray from Parisian hotelier Jean-Louis Costes and François-Joseph Graf, the maître of sumptuous interiors (and one of the most revered talents...
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...This is language that France’s pre-eminent Socialist president François Mitterrand would have been proud of....
...François de Poortere, head of Old Master paintings at Christie’s New York, says: “The no-reserve aspect creates buzz and it is a signal of our faith that the market will support these pictures and that the...
...I’ve recently rediscovered Jean-François Piège’s Le Grand Restaurant, in Paris. The cuisine and his technique are so precise, but nothing is ever fussy....
...To protect the grain from rain, a wooden roof was added in 1783, which was later replaced after a fire by François-Joseph Bélanger’s iron version, a wonder of its age....
...“The incredible speed of this wave is still what I’m surprised at,” said François Venter, an expert on HIV and infectious diseases at Johannesburg’s Wits University....
...Online auction, 18 January to 1 February; christies.com Gems from a François-Joseph Graf interior on Lake Geneva One of François-Joseph Graf’s first projects after launching his eponymous interior-design...
...The most notorious tyrants of the 20th century — from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong to Uganda’s Idi Amin and François “Papa Doc” Duvalier of Haiti — ruled by means of mass violence, cults of...
...Signatories include former leaders such as the UK’s Gordon Brown, France’s François Hollande, Ireland’s Mary Robinson, and Spain’s José Zapatero as well as Nobel Prize winners such as Joseph Stiglitz, Françoise...
...Chateaubriand and Joseph de Maistre, a monarchist and anti-Enlightenment thinker who makes an appearance in anéantir....
...In particular, they came to the attention of François Pinault, and a suite of six huge paintings of chaotically aggressive youths have been on show at the fashion magnate’s Bourse de Commerce since it opened...
...For this reason, “most scientists with a view on these variants are more concerned about the South African one than the Kent one,” said Francois Balloux, director of the University College London Genetics...
...Former leaders who signed the letter included Gordon Brown, former UK prime minister; François Hollande, former French president; Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR; and Yves Leterme, former...
...wrote the fullest report on the Forest of Fontainebleau, the multitasking botanical illustrator, Pierre-Joseph Redouté....
...Francois Bennahmias, chief executive of Audemars Piguet, says collaborations must appear credible to the market, as “nobody buys fake and phoney any more”....
...ambassador José Gabriel González Singer/songwriter Eric Ingersoll Energy Options Network, US Michael Liebreich Liebreich Associates, UK Jacopo Buongiorno Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Joseph...
...A good example of the sort of value available from Bordeaux if you steer clear of the famous names. 13.5% Jean-François Mérieau Gamay 2018 Touraine £13.45 Haynes Hanson & Clark The morello cherry fruitiness...
...A neighbour, Jean François, was a cooper. Hoping to profit from US winemakers’ reverence for French oak, he suggested she use her English on behalf of the cooperage company François Frères....
...Witnesses marvel at how today’s national leaders — some of the most powerful men and women in Europe — sit attentively at gatherings while Joseph Daul, EPP president, delivers “finger-wagging lectures” to...
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