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...“I don’t see [the transitional council] functioning,” said Jacky Lumarque, rector of the Quisqueya private university in Port-au-Prince....
...The country is in effect locked down, with the airport and seaport in Port-au-Prince suspending operations amid the latest violence....
...On Sunday evening the US embassy in Port-au-Prince told Americans to leave the country as soon as possible because of the deteriorating security situation....
...Maestros from La Scala’s pantheon of conductors have made L’amore dei tre re (“The Love of the Three Kings”) what it is: Italo Montemezzi’s best-known opera....
...But Prince Fahad, Prince Saud and Prince Ahmed now make all the major decisions on purchases, sales and matings – and everything Prince Khalid did, they do....
...In September, Gohar unveiled an installation at the Prince de Galles hotel in Paris – “my ultimate trompe l’oeil to date” – consisting of giant cakes seemingly made out of minty fondant and topped with enormous...
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here ‘Loading: L’art urbain à l’ère numérique’ (Loading: Urban Art in the Digital Age), Grand Palais Immersif An exhibition exploring the evolution of urban...
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...Downstairs on the piano nobile is the apartment of Diane von Furstenberg – the former wife of Cristiana’s nephew, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, which makes her family, too....
...His London-based architect son Ernst L Freud had prepared a spacious study cum sitting room for him....
...“Legend tells that the four daughters of Prince Olbianus, Lord of Hyères, were unrivalled in their beauty and, as pirates approached whilst they were bathing, their father begged for mercy....
...Empathy is a delightful quality and it’s one that the gifted Scottish travel-writer Peter Ross shares with that prince of church-crawlers, the poet John Betjeman....
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...version of l’art de recevoir....
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Their uniforms shine in rich impasto hues fit for kings: myriad whites for “Le Petit Pâtissier”, hands on his hips, insouciant as a prince; velvety reds and blacks for “Le Valet de Chambre” with outsize...
...UBS has hired three Barclays bankers in New York, according to a memo seen by DD: Marco Valla joins as global banking co-head (his predecessor Ros L’Esperance will launch a senior advisory group within the...
...“The EU needs the energy co-operation of the Gulf states,” he told the newspaper l’Opinion....
...Dior wool jacket, £2,000 L’Estrange merino The All Day Shirt, £149 Leica D-Lux 7 camera, £1,170 Louis Vuitton cotton chinos, £640 Luca Faloni leather Weekender bag, £675 Brioni silk tie, £190 Audemars...
...that my companions were about to crash from their marzipan sugar highs, but they enjoyed nosing around the palace, racing each other down its twin staircases, marvelling at the tiled floors and trompe l’...
...L’Après-midi d’un faune (1912), choreographed and danced by his lover Nijinsky, climaxed (quite literally) with the Faun lowering himself suggestively on to a stolen scarf....
...by adding its neighbour Ch l’Arrosée, naming the brand-new entity Ch Quintus....
...His relationship to prehistory is explored in an exhibition recently unveiled at the Musée de l’Homme....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
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