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...The area had been settled by veterans of Julius Caesar’s Gaul campaigns. (So began a tradition: the Gard countryside is still populated by wealthy retirees, this time from the corporate battlefields)....
...; further information here soon Performance ‘The Magic Flute’, Geelong Arts Centre A Sydney Opera House production of Mozart’s opera comes to Geelong in Victoria November under the direction of Kate Gaul...
...After all, they overcame their metus Gallicus, their fear of the Gauls....
...In collaboration with Derek Hockridge, a British schoolteacher-turned-university-lecturer, she also translated from French the Asterix comic book series about a village of exuberant ancient Gauls who resist...
...Two years earlier Britannia’s military leader had mounted a coup against the local imperial power, invaded Gaul (using the remaining troops in Britannia) and tried (unsuccessfully) to take over the western...
...The rulers of Pergamon, eager to promote their supremacy, sent suites of sculptures to the Athenian acropolis to mark victories over barbarians and mythological foes....
...Japan’s Love for Impressionism, edited by Beate Marks-Hanssen, Prestel, RRP£40/RRP$60 That rare thing, a fresh perspective on impressionism....
...Asterix and the Picts , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/$14.95 With the blessing of Albert Uderzo, surviving co-creator of the indomitable Gaul, Ferri and...
...Fully ripe, succulent fruit and the stuffing to develop. 15% £6.99 Marks & Spencer Quinta do Rigodeira Baga 2005 Bairrada Unusual intensity for the price....
...Slightly tarry but with lots of broad strawberry fruit too. 14.5% £8.49 Sainsbury’s Matthias Gaul, Palataia Pinot Noir 2009 Pfalz Proof of Germany’s increasing prowess with the red burgundy grape....
...£10.99, 56 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 Housing estates have driven out the wild boar, Obélix is eating chickpeas, while climate change, MRI scans and the Imperiovision song contest have all made a mark...
...But as remote as Clermont Ferrand may feel, the town of 141,000 souls has made its global mark as the home of Michelin, the world’s largest tyre company....
...Excellent value for claret traditionalists. 13% £7.95 Wine Society Matthias Gaul, Palataia Pinot Noir 2008 Pfalz 16.5 Drink 2009-10 Very pure, flattering Pinot aromas from globally warmed Germany....
...In Disney’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman) the child of a Nazi officer forms a dangerous liaison with a boy prisoner in a concentration camp....
...On the other side is the river, wide, sluggish and muddy, that marks the border with Cameroon....
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