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...The word “civilisation” appears for the first time in France in the 1750s, introduced by the Marquis de Mirabeau....
...“The principle of trying to spread the economic success China had over the past 40 years to less developed cities and rural areas is in theory a good strategy,” added Marquis....
...Like a butter knife through butter, letter from Edward Fowler-Wright, Little Hereford, UK. Like a butter knife through butter....
...It is late summer 1967, and the scene is the Melroses’ French country house, situated in the novel near the castle of the Marquis de Sade....
...Samantha Malk sang capably as Dido/Sorceress and Marie Marquis, crisp of diction, was an excellent Belinda....
...Predictably, perhaps, it appealed to both Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade....
...Established in 1912 by the Marquis of Bute, Dovecot was conceived to create pieces for his stately home, Mount Stuart....
...Vintage specialists Fox and Flyte have another modern-day Rex – Luke Edward Hall, one of the company’s trio of founders (www.foxandflyte.com)....
...Successful to a point, anyway: four of the party died on the way down, including Lord Francis Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry’s brother....
...The cast of characters assembled around d’Holbach’s table included Edward Gibbon, David Hume, Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin....
...“Yes, I am mad,” declares Haris Pasovic, “like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.”...
...Edward Marquis, chief executive of the Villa Book, a UK-based rental agency focusing on France, Spain, Italy and Greece, says November has been his best month in the past six....
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