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...We tend to serve finger food like petits fours that guests can eat on the move.”...
...The couple bought their 1920s, stone-built house in Petit Juas, an area north-west of the town centre, for €400,000 — they estimate its current worth at €500,000, after about €60,000 spent on improvements...
...“We don’t sell [most Louis Vuitton] products to rich people, it is to people who have money and want to indulge themselves,” says Jean-Jacques Guiony, chief financial officer at LVMH....
...The 160 sq ft Petit Club rooms are compact, but perfect for a solo traveller, with alcove beds framed in a peacock-feather jacquard fabric and plenty of daylight....
...There’s new-build modern accommodation as well, but the suites in the Endicott-period former officers’ quarters have cornices, mullioned windows and other pretty details to spare....
...There are obvious echoes of Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther, another Nazi-era police officer, and Chris Petit’s August Schlegel, a reluctant Gestapo employee, in his characterisations....
...After the revolution, the building fell into long disuse, and eventually became a shabby army officers’ mess....
...Petit deftly recreates the Reich as it enters its death spiral....
...“Investing in commercial property, you’re investing for income,” said Tim Munn, chief investment officer at Mayfair Capital, the UK arm of asset manager Swiss Life....
...Dan Ivascyn, chief investment officer at Pimco, warned the consequences of the deteriorating loan quality will be rippling through the market for some time to come....
...You couldn’t pass me over some petit fours too could you? It’s nice here in the Pavilion. These TVs are huge. I’ll go courtside later....
...“You look terrible,” says a fellow officer as she moseys into the LA cop shop where she serves as a damaged-goods detective, her lank, greying hair, pasty complexion and red-rimmed eyes bearing witness to...
...France’s Le Petit Vapoteur has taken advantage of this....
...“Un petit actionnaire minoritaire est un petit con, un gros actionnaire minoritaire est un gros con.” In English, a small minority investor is a small idiot, a big minority investor is a big idiot....
...I was an education officer and also a navigation officer. We had a squadron of highly trained Spitfire pilots and all these chaps wanted to do was fly.”...
...Even today, consumers of the company’s brands — John West in the UK, Chicken of the Sea in the US, Mareblu in Italy, and Petit Navire in France — are unlikely to have heard of the conglomerate that owns...
...High productivity is typical of Morpurgo, who has just finished another book, his own translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince....
...Desire for such stones is relatively new, says Johnny Velloza, chief operating officer at Gem Diamonds....
...Last month, the company hosted a splashy gala at the Petit Palais, a Parisian art museum....
...Revenues this year are up 5 per cent year on year in Europe and 8 per cent in France, says Damien Personeni, the company’s chief commercial officer....
...The murders in January last year of staff at Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine, police officers and clients and employees of a kosher supermarket had been a shock....
...I especially loved a wool naval officer coat, long and lean with military detailing, brass hardware, a heavy tab at the back and a structured shoulder....
...Two neighbouring restaurants by the Canal St Martin, Le Petit Cambodge and Le Petit Carillon, were also targeted....
...He is known to have re-entered Belgium around 4am on Saturday and was reportedly stopped by officers as many as three times on the border but then let go....
...Two neighbouring restaurants by the Canal St Martin, Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon, were also targeted....
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