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...While London built around 7,000 new hotel rooms for its Olympics in 2012, Paris has only added around 2,000 rooms, according to Petit....
...The studio is now conducting the same research for the Comité Grande Armée, focusing on the area between Place de l’Étoile and the Bois de Boulogne....
...The works, collected by the late Rotterdam shipping magnate Willem Cordia and his wife, Marijke Cordia-van der Laan, span the 19th century — such as Edgar Degas’s “Le petit déjeuner après le bain” (c1894...
...Among their 17 items that sold for more than €1mn — up from seven last year — was Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s delicious “Le panier de fraises des bois” (1761), which made an artist record of €24.4mn in...
...Here, through beeswax, turpentine, chocolate and smoky notes, they created a picture of Pompadour in her petit salon....
...Muriel Petit has been appointed head of consumer products investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Jefferies. She joins from BNP Paribas and will be based in Paris....
...The New York-based brewer of Corona and Modelo beers said it signed an agreement with E & J Gallo Winery to divest 30 brands such as Estancia, Ravenswood and Clos du Bois that have a retail value of about...
...Mr Petit said that on the question of share suspensions, China is “an outlier by an order of magnitude” and that it forms “the very essence of what is an investor’s concern, which is that you invest money...
...The BOI also negotiated directly with Triumph and Ducati to win their pre-2012 investments....
...With deluxe houses such as the “Chateau Petit Versailles”, a 14-bedroom mansion that rents for $27,000 a night and includes a chef, concierge and housekeeping staff, Luxury Retreats would bring a new class...
...BoI has, for example, half of the auto finance market, which has enabled it to capture the 40 per cent increase in commercial vehicle sales this year....
...They were the scene of riots in 2005 after the accidental death of two teenagers chased by police in Clichy-sous-Bois, 10km from Bobigny....
...I can’t get a show in Paris, because I’m le petit Belge, the infectious type. The Parisians don’t understand what globalisation is about. People ask me, ‘Why do you paint?’...
...In 1940, it was acquired by Paris’s Musée Marmottan, a marvellously discreet museum on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne – though it did not go on display there until after the war....
...Better, in fact, in that the beginning of the week was marked by the opening of the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Bois de Boulogne....
...Located in Puteaux on the western fringe of Paris, it offers an expansive view of the River Seine, the Bois de Boulogne and the Eiffel Tower. He dedicates the little free time he has to playing sport....
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...Italian choreographer Laura Scozzi returned to the world of fairytales to open the festival with Barbe-Neige et les Sept Petits Cochons au bois dormant (Snow Beard and the Seven Little Sleeping Pigs)....
Service and expertise behind the counter are more important than ever, along with appeal to a younger generation
...Hermès is the latest to dip into Toogood’s talent, hiring her to create a dramatic temporary installation for the arrival of its travelling “Petit h is Hermès” shop at its London Bond Street flagship....
...Marole, Les Bois Chevaux and Clos Salomon all include ideal mid-slope sites, albeit with varying orientations)....
...Mr Draghi said the BoI had “done everything it should, appropriately and in time”....
...February 19 and featuring the incredibly lush and detailed graphics (pictured left) for which the Crytek studio is famed, and Army of TWO The Devil’s Cartel, coming March 26, and including hip-hop stars Big Boi...
...worse for it. 13% £9.99 Real Wine Co, 0800 0322 992, www.therealwineco.co.uk Producteurs Plaimont, Le Passé Authentique 2010 St-Mont Bravo les Gascons, for having rescued their indigenous Arrufiac and Petit...
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