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...In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon and Puck use wild pansy to make Demetrius fall in love; in Roman mythology, Cupid struck the flower with an arrow, transforming it into an amorous potion....
...Ancient empires, from the Romans to the Mongols, recognised that greater trade led to increased taxes, which helped to finance their military machines....
...1163-1345 Notre-Dame de Paris built on the Ile de la Cité in central Paris, on the site of a Gallo-Roman city known as Lutetia....
...As a matter of fact, the Hall of Mirrors features a painting by Charles Le Brun depicting Louis the Great holding thunder, the symbol of the king of the Roman gods, French historian Joël Cornette tells me...
...Love affair France’s love for state intervention goes back to the 17th century, pioneered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister....
...Meanwhile, questions are growing about whether Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, president of the Vatican Bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, will continue in his job....
...Also here is a lovely still early Corot, “The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct”, acquired by the National Gallery at the post-1917 sale of Degas’s collection....
...But in the 21st century, the collections of the super-rich are again characterised by multimedia breadth, by rejection of hierarchies and by global scope: the Al-Thani of Qatar collect Roman antiquities,...
...Having taken their oath of secrecy on entering Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel with windows obscured and all electronic communications blocked, the 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic church are finally set...
...In the group were such well-known names as Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Roman Opalka and Victor Vasarely....
...A video by Jean-Baptiste Barrière – a world premiere – will run alongside the performance....
...Born the son of a wigmaker and milliner in Paris just before the revolution, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot pursued an ancien régime classical training in Rome, then spent a lifetime depicting everyday landscapes...
...An equally assertive – if more abstract – design was presented by Jean-Baptiste Sibertin-Blanc, creative director of glassware company Daum....
...Barring a sensation, then, from Rocky Baptiste and his Havant team-mates, events in the stands at Anfield on Saturday may be scrutinised more closely than those on the pitch....
...His great-great grandfather, Jean Baptiste August Kessler, was one of the founders of Royal Dutch, now Royal Dutch Shell....
...His great-great- grandfather was Jean Baptiste August Kessler, one of the three founders of Royal Dutch....
.... £4,000-£4,500. www.thesilverfund.com Confiturier, Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot Used for serving stewed fruits or jams, this French silver confiturier with 12 accompanying vermeil silver spoons was made...
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