Hints and tips:
...Real Dictators, narrated sultrily by Paul McGann of Withnail and I fame. Les Enjeux Internationaux, a French angle on world news. I’ll Drink to That....
...Violette Serrat, make-up artist“Bonjour Tristesse by the late French author Françoise Sagan, which she wrote when she was 18....
...After divorcing Paul Halimi, whom she had married in 1956, Halimi remarried in 1961....
...Paul Poiret, the first couturier to liberate the female form from pinched waists and put ankles on show, commissioned a series of organically twisting lamp stands....
...In 2002, he adapted the libretto of Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály’s 1926 work Háry János for the opera director Jean-Paul Scarpitta....
...The library held books on Picasso, Carl Sagan (and a number on UFOs). There was eclectic furniture and a grand piano, folk masks and objects collected on his journeys overseas....
...It is not enough to write with clarity; the great science communicators, from Carl Sagan to David Attenborough, inspire a sense of wonder....
...A couple of years later, the newspaper L’Express told its readers that he was to haute couture what Françoise Sagan was to literature and Bernard Buffet to painting: successful, glamorous, gorgeous and very...
...Since then, landmark poverty pastiches have included Coco Chanel’s luxe-pauvre (as Paul Poiret dubbed her utilitarian jersey and tweed creations), and Yves Saint-Laurent’s peasant skirts – experiments taken...
...Philosophically, you could call this an embrace of nothingness or what the Spanish call la nada and the French (and Jean-Paul Sartre in particular) call le néant....
...Kosmos features an animated Carl Sagan, and was inspired by the best-selling science series, Cosmos, to introduce an exciting new version for kids....
...Paul Sagan, chief executive of Akamai, which delivers one fifth of the world’s web traffic, told the Monaco Media Forum last week this year was “a tipping point for video on the internet”....
...Or look at Celine, where Ivana Omazic fell into a Françoise Sagan novel and, stuck under a sea of perfectly stiff pencil skirts, flannel wrap dresses and shantung trench coats, could not get out....
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