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...The name, however, only emerged in the 19th century, when authors such as George Sand began comparing Parisian artists to the vagabonds said to have originated in Bohemia, now a part of the Czech Republic...
...Top lot of the evening by far, as expected, was Picasso’s “Femme à la montre” (1932), a portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, which sold for $121mn ($139.4mn with fees, est $120mn)....
...As Rusalka, Asmik Grigorian follows her earlier Jenůfa in London with another major Czech role....
...flourished in the late 19th century across western Europe is often visually summed up in Paris’s iconic, curvy metro stations (designed by French architect Hector Guimard) or in the winsome, willowy women of Czech...
...Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the Free Democrat chair of the German parliament’s defence committee, said Berlin should start preparations to work with European allies to supply Ukraine with Leopards....
...Ivana Marie Zelníčková was born and raised in communist Czechoslovakia, the daughter of an electrical engineer....
...Make-up, Marie Duhart at Bryant. Set design, Eleonara Succi at Walter Schupfer. Photographer’s assistant, Bastien Santanoceto. Digital operator, Manon Clavelier....
...Plesl’s pieces were created in the glassmaking town of Bělá pod Bezdězem in the Czech Republic, using the new glass-casting technology of Vitrum Vivum – a process developed by Czech glass master Jiří Šín...
...While many think of ceramics in Europe as starting with the classical Greek and Roman periods, the earliest pieces discovered date from 29,000 to 25,000BC, found at a site at Dolní Věstonice in the Czech...
...Anne-Marie Trevelyan, UK international trade secretary, said: “This far-reaching package of sanctions will inflict further damage on the Russian war machine.”...
...After a subsequent brief spell at the Czech embassy in Belgrade, her father took the family across the Atlantic as refugees from newly-communist Czechoslovakia....
...Officials said she would bring “a strong economic focus” to the role and will carry out joint diplomatic missions with Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who replaced her as international trade secretary....
...Anne-Marie Brady, an expert on Chinese influence operations at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, said the CCP had long been “helping people who help them to make money”....
...The cosmopolitan Dussek enjoyed the patronage of Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great and Talleyrand, and lived at various times in Hamburg, St Petersburg, Paris and London....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a hot-chocolate pot from Les Fermes de Marie in Megève, where we once spent the Christmas holidays skiing....
...(Bloomberg) How to Marie Kondo the EU Florence Gaub takes inspiration from Japanese tidying sensation Marie Kondo and applies it to the EU project: if it doesn’t spark joy, bin it (Politico): “An institution...
...Downstairs, a spectacular example of this approach is by Czech-born, Berlin-based Klára Hosnedlová....
...The True Finns, Spain’s Podemos, Italy’s Five Star Movement or the Czech Republic’s ANO (Yes) party are prime examples....
...It took the introduction, not always welcomed at first, of brave people such as Francis Cammaerts, a Frenchman, Andrée de Jongh, a young Belgian woman, and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, also from France, to...
...Power imbalances: Anne-Marie Slaughter says the fall of Harvey Weinstein is a milestone in the march towards equality....
...“We have to speak about two crises,” says Felicia Marie Knaul from the University of Miami, a leading researcher on the commission....
...Her links with the Russian leader date back to 2011, when she took over the party from her father Jean-Marie. Until then, the FN had an informal alliance with far-right leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky....
...The boy who survived Vichy and the Nazi occupation was no longer Pavel Friedländer but Paul-Henri-Marie Ferland....
...“Last year really saw a kind of divorce between two energy partners,” said Marie-Claire Aoun, a director of the energy centre at the French Institute for International Relations think-tank....
...“It was known as the Manchester of Austria-Hungary in the late 19th century; we had so many textile mills,” says Marie Zezulkova, head of city strategy for the Brno municipality....
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