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...This year’s programme includes excerpts from Nureyev’s Swan Lake, La Sylphide and Maurice Béjart’s La Luna, as well as newer pieces beyond the company’s traditional repertoire....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...According to Chantal Bourreau’s book Avoriaz: l’aventure fantastique, Maurice Michaud, the so-called “Snow Dictator” in charge of the government scheme to develop resorts like Les Ménuires and Les Arcs,...
...It runs February 4-11 and costs from £2,300 per person; see somewherewonderful.com/tours Clover Stroud in Marrakech On May 9, bestselling British memoirist Clover Stroud publishes her fourth book, The Giant...
...Original engraved menu boards on the wall that date from a bygone brasserie era, with items ranging from eau de vie and calvados to chocolat liégeois via soupe à l’oignon, set the tone for today’s still...
...Behind David is another new, flat-looking sculpture, the complementary “Dame a L’Éponge” (2023)....
...Blackmores was established 91 years ago by Maurice Blackmore who co-founded one of the country’s first health stores in Brisbane in 1938....
...The companion portraits on either side, and the trompe-l’oeil murals of deluxe drapery, are fresh from the hand of Swiss pastel virtuoso Nicolas Party....
...I also love my black Louis Vuitton roller [case] with grey accents and my double-L monogram on the side....
...Opposing it was Maurice Denis, Catholic self-styled “neo-traditionalist” and focal figure for the loosely affiliated Nabis (Prophets) painters....
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...“It’s Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Bristol, Stroud . . . As well as Dublin and Barcelona.”...
...Her first foray into recording was at the invitation of famed songwriter and composer Michel Rivgauche, who wrote for Édith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri and Maurice Chevalier among many others....
...Now Marcel Proust, La fabrique de l’oeuvre, just launched at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to mark the centenary of the writer’s death, unfolds both the making of the text and, exhilaratingly...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...Maurice’s father, Billy, possessed the family artistic streak as a lace designer; one of his drawings in white ink on black card employs a dazzling trompe-l’oeil effect with its rendering of fabric creases...
...Nabis group painter Maurice Denis by Ivan for his Music Salon in 1907 — is a kitsch, reactionary, faux-Arcadian pastiche of the Renaissance cycle by Raphael on which they were based....
...And it’s worth checking out L’Ecume, a characterful bookshop with live events and a great little café....
...It heralds the arrival of L. Ron Hubbard after he purchased a local stately home called Saint Hill Manor in 1959, which Hilton calls “one of the world’s premier finishing schools for fundamentalists”....
...Investors suspect Maurice Tulloch may belong to the latter group. The new boss of Aviva was expected to unveil plans to reinvigorate the sluggish UK insurer....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...We had all seen L’Artisan Parfumeur, and Annick Goutal, but this felt completely new. Even so, I never expected it would have such success internationally. We just make the best perfumes we can.”...
...This was a rough, sarcastic, laughable riposte to Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe”, but also a clumsy attempt at Arcadia: the Marmottan placed it next to Poussin’s bathers “Landscape with Bacchus and Ceres...
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