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...The film set-perfect resort, which attracts flocks of Parisians every summer, is like an open air museum of Belle Époque architecture....
...The Man in the Red Coat , by Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, RRP£18.99 Barnes’ hybrid book focuses on three exemplary characters during the Belle Époque — a prince, a count and a society doctor called Samuel...
...It’s not hard to believe that Antonello’s flinty soldier provided inspiration for the suspicious personality that is La Belle Ferronnière....
...A four-bedroom, two-bathroom cottage in the village of Bangor on Belle-Ile, with an office, wine cellar and sea views is on sale for €777,600 through Belle Ile Immobilier....
...It’s hard to believe that the artist who painted such ascetic anguish could also have been responsible for “La Belle Ferroniere” (1490-96)....
...The most accomplished Florentine Madonna, “La Belle Jardiniere” (1507-08), takes from Leonardo the play of light and dark, and the Virgin’s informal pose; her tender interaction with the children Christ...
...There are three important portraits: “The Lady with and Ermine”, “The Portrait of a Musician” and “La Belle Ferronniere”....
...State-funded, the Musée Cocteau will catapult sedate Menton, with its genteel gardens and belle époque monuments, into the Côte d’Azur’s edgiest seafront....
...And Lisa O’Hara (pictured) grasps the title role with both hands....
...Baden Baden, whose belle-époque hotels, thermal baths and sweeping lawns are virtually unchanged since the city’s 19th-century heyday as Europe’s summer capital, had history but no contemporary art until...
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