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...Manet, during his last illness, ventured a modern history painting: “Rochefort’s Escape” (1881), depicting communard Henri Rochefort fleeing his penal colony, though the beleaguered black figure in the little...
...Among the best-respected dealers was Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun: husband to the celebrated portrait painter (and friend and favourite of Marie Antoinette) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, he sold his wares...
...I discovered him through my antique dealer, Galerie Le Studio in Paris. I love the elongated and pure lines of the shelves and the black high-gloss wood....
...On my visit last weekend Mozart was followed by Chinese conceptualist film-maker Cheng Ren; forthcoming events range from a showing of Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort to a night...
...“Only the law can protect those who wear the veil under pressure,” she told Le Monde newspaper. “But when we support those women, we are considered ‘Islamophobic.’”...
...“The Escape of Rochefort”, his final work here (the show’s other serious omission is the late “Bar at the Folies Bergère”), celebrates the escape of communard Henri de Rochefort from a prison colony....
...Havre to Rochefort, passing through Nantes....
...Helped by a scientific and archaeological committee, the château uses castles at Ratilly, La Motte-Josserand, Dourdan and Yèvre-le-Châtel as models, and attracts 320,000 visitors a year....
...In Les plages she opens up for the first time about the death of her husband Jacques Demy, the director of musicals such as Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) and Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), who...
...Less well known is that at the same time he purchased Rodin’s “Bust of Henri Rochefort”....
...Yann de Rochefort thought he wouldn’t have to quit his day job....
...“In winter, well at any time really, if you haven’t got a house, you stay at Le Toiras.”...
...Her second outing with Demy in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort was no less daunting, as filming for the seaside musical took place in August and she was “in a wig and heels and it was 40 degrees outside....
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