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...It had been more than 40 years since Anne Marie Allen lived and worked at Ballyglunin Park, but she still took the servants’ driveway up to the house....
...The headline act is Picasso’s portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, “Femme à la montre” (1932), carrying an estimate of more than $120mn....
...“It’s the end of a very long journey,” said Jean-Marie Mognetti, chief executive of asset manager Coinshares. “Bitcoin has graduated with distinction and is recognised as an investable asset class.”...
...As Dodin says in The Taste of Things, there are only 13 years between the death of Marie-Antoine Carême — the inventor of grande cuisine and the man behind the vol-au-vent — and the birth of Auguste Escoffier...
...A room directed by Woody Allen, inspired by Ingmar Bergman and shot by Sven Nykvist. Enticed is an inadequate word....
...More absurdly, last month a book called Read Me a Story, Stella was flagged as inappropriate in Alabama, seemingly because of the author’s name — Marie-Louise Gay....
...In the mixed-owner portion, 10 works went unsold, including a 1938 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter against a pink background, estimated $20mn-$30mn....
...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark Allen Lane, £35, 896 pages Munro Price is emeritus professor of history at Bradford university....
...It will be a while before an art collection can rival that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which made a total of $1.6bn across two auctions at Christie’s last week....
...Nicolas Cage’s Elvis obsession is so acute he even married Lisa Marie Presley for a head-spinning three months....
...Anne-Marie Lister, chief people officer, says: “People are asking whether they really need to be in meetings. They are finding efficiencies.”...
...Even the ferocious Hurricane Allen, in 1980, was survivable. It devastated the shallower reefs but soon the coral appeared to be recovering....
...Marie Favereau, a French specialist on nomadic empires, illuminates the Mongol system of government in a way that is accessible to general readers as well as scholarly....
...In August 1960, the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, telegrammed his station chief in Léopoldville: “If [Lumumba] continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave...
...Austria produced 16 children, overhauled much of her empire’s administration and waged war on her hated enemy, Frederick the Great of Prussia, as well as sending copious advice to her children (including Marie...
...Sudhir Hazareesingh is a fellow and tutor in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, and author of ‘How the French Think’ and, most recently, ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’ (both Allen...
...The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the Worldby Marie Favereau, The Belknap Press £23.95/$29.95 In medieval European times, the Mongols ruled a vast area of the Eurasian landmass stretching as far to the...
...Job moves Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art elected Marie-Josée Kravis as its new chair effective July 1....
...Advised by blue-chip names Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Allen & Overy, it launched what it called a “pre-IPO” funding round....
...In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, Dalí baffles the time-travelling American hero by gesturing and exclaiming that he sees a rhinoceros....
...Gazing out of the window at Thyme, the luxury hotel that sprawls over 150 acres of impossibly beautiful Cotswolds countryside, I half expected to spy Marie Antoinette with a gilded lead in her hand, taking...
...He set off on a journey around Europe “in search of a tribe that might feel like home”, wondering if the label “Afropean” — coined in part by the Belgian-Congolese musician Marie Daulne — could offer a way...
...But few things were so dear to him as his cat Choupette, on whom he doted to an almost Marie Antoinette-ish degree, employing several nannies to tend it, and casting its likeness in numerous jewels....
...And at Inis Meáin , off the west coast of Ireland, where Ruairí de Blacam is the chef, and his wife Marie-Thérèse performs a great variety of duties....
...Phillips, increasingly a force in the 20th-century field, has fine drawings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from music publisher Julian J Aberbach and his wife Anne Marie....
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