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...Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, born in 1738, was a German who opened his factory in the hamlet of Jouy-en-Josas in 1759. It was next to a river, where the linens could be washed and bleached....
...Among the best-respected dealers was Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun: husband to the celebrated portrait painter (and friend and favourite of Marie Antoinette) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, he sold his wares...
...Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon is in a most unusual position....
...“The new education minister has a long and urgent to-do-list,” said Baptiste Larseneur, an expert at Institut Montaigne....
...I’ve worn it for 20 years, since working on a movie with the producer Philippe Carcassonne. I was cutting his hair when I smelt this amazing perfume....
...And if successful, he would hand over the mayoralty to deputy Jean-Baptiste Gastinne, the incumbent who has been in the post for almost a year....
...I’m sitting in a gloomy chamber somewhere deep in the Royal Academy, on an even gloomier afternoon in October, when the French designer Philippe Starck makes his entrance. “Hello, hello!”...
...In the same paper, the secretary of state for transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, accused Mr Martinez and his union of obstructionism and intimidation....
...To be launched next month, it is a co-operation between the designer Philippe Starck, a fan of natural wine, and Roederer’s celebrated champagne magician Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon....
...General Charles De Gaulle and General Philippe Leclerc attend the ceremony. 1991 Notre-Dame added to the Unesco World Heritage List 2012 A year-long celebration of the 850th anniversary of the laying...
...Established by Louis XIV’s finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1665 to counter Venetian glass imports, Saint-Gobain made the mirrors at Versailles before diversifying as the centuries unrolled....
...Jean-Baptiste filled the room with 200 pink Sweet Avalanche roses – I couldn’t see the floor – and then he proposed, with a 2.5ct cushion-cut diamond....
...“The programmes are quite similar, so what matters is who is actually going to do it,” Jean-Baptiste Danet, the chief executive of design agency Dragon Rouge, noted....
...For the luxury offering, the domaine is aiming to broaden the appeal of wines from a region that Chanzy chief executive Philippe der Megreditchian describes as “inaccessible”....
...Notable alumni include Philip Hampton, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland; António Horta Osório, the head of Lloyds Bank; and Philippe Mellier, chief executive of De Beers....
...Philippe Qinault’s libretto was a hit when the elderly Jean-Baptiste Lully turned it into a refined lyric tragedy in 1686....
...There is, however, one glaring absence from the party: Handel’s contemporary across the Channel, Jean-Philippe Rameau....
...President, European Parliament Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Former European deputy Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Lawyer Etienne Davignon, Belgian State Minister; former Vice-President, European Commission Jean Baptiste...
...Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, president of Efama, the European asset management association, expects “the sheer size of European and international regulation” will be the key challenge facing the industry....
...Philippe Marchessaux, head of BNP Paribas Investment Partners and chief executive of BNP Paribas Asset Management....
...Baptiste Aboulian is associate editor of Ignites Europe, a Financial Times publication, where this article first appeared...
...Baptiste Aboulian is a reporter on Ignites Europe, a Financial Times publication, where this article first appeared...
...Philippe Zaouati, development chief at Natixis Asset Management, also estimates that “there is a drift from where treasurers used mid-term products for short-term management”....
...Though inhabited by mythological personages, the operas of Jean- Baptiste Lully are a glittering reflection of the court of Louis XIV....
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