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...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...
...Alongside are Degas’ portraits of Eugène Manet, the artist’s brother and eventually Morisot’s husband, and of Morisot’s sister; more straightforward exercises in naturalism, they attest to close circles...
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...The blaze sent the 19th-century spire erected by French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc crashing into the interior, destroying the roof, altar and much of the nave....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...The stake dates back to 1974, when Nestlé first bought into L’Oréal at the request of Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L’Oréal founder Eugène Schueller, with the aim of preventing a potential nationalisation...
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
...The Women of Troyby Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton £18.99/Doubleday $28 After the success of her feminist interpretation of The Iliad, Barker continues with the story of the aftermath of the Trojan War, told...
...Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz is as slight a confection as Italian verismo has to offer, a simple tale of gentle, young love among the cherry trees....
...The exhibition invites us to see Poussin as Eugène Delacroix did: as “one of the greatest innovators”....
...“It was important to rebrand because you’re not going to get the same thing as in another David Zwirner space,” says director Ebony L Haynes....
...Maurice’s father, Billy, possessed the family artistic streak as a lace designer; one of his drawings in white ink on black card employs a dazzling trompe-l’oeil effect with its rendering of fabric creases...
...Disney gave Kareem Daniel, a former chief of staff to Mr Chapek, a powerful new position overseeing the distribution of all Disney’s creative content — what one colleague described as “the single biggest P&L...
...In which film did Philip Seymour Hoffman play Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
...By contrast some big multinationals, including L’Oréal and Total in France, have vowed to forgo state aid in a show of solidarity with taxpayers....
...Her site has about 60 galleries on board, with works at shop.designmiami.com ranging from trompe l’oeil folding paper shelves designed by Peter Marigold at $25 (sold as a digital file for buyers to print...
...L’Aller Retour on Rue Charles-François Dupuis was a cosy meat restaurant where we’d take foreign visitors....
...Pushkin will like the idea: his taste for French food led him to stuff his hero Eugene Onegin, on the razz in St Petersburg, with Strasbourg pie (foie gras, truffles, grouse and pork, wrapped in pastry)...
...K&L Gates has hired Skylor Hearn as a government affairs adviser in its public policy and law practice. Hearn spent more than two and a half decades at the Texas Department of Public Safety....
...Jean-Jacques Schul Braine l’Alleud, BelgiumEIB Honorary General Director; Founder, IDAY-International...
...Letter in response to this article: A self-serving set-up allows the EIB to resist change / From Jean-Jacques Schul, Braine l’Alleud, Belgium...
...He documented his collection in a book released last year to coincide with the first exhibition of his rings, at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris....
...So did the Bettencourt family, heirs to L’Oréal, while the oil and gas company Total announced it would contribute €100m....
...At the centre of his 1911 masterpiece “L’Atelier Rouge” hangs a black and yellow band of Ottoman velvet, as prominent as Matisse’s own pictures represented in the painting....
...Nigel Dodds, the deputy DUP leader, l aid out conditions for accepting a backstop, saying: “It can't be forever, it must be time limited, it must be finite....
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