Hints and tips:
...At a flower show at the Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard, near Paris, I was amazed by the tables of fine tomatoes on display, although their proprietor supplies clients in the EU but not Britain....
...The best paper on this is probably Jean-François L’Her, Rossitsa Stoyanova, Kathryn Shaw, William Scott, and Charissa Lai’s paper “A Bottom-Up Approach to the Risk-Adjusted Performance of the Buyout Fund...
...As replacements I suggest the evergreen Euonymus Jean Hugues, taller than box but clippable....
...The Lord John Bird Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Big Issue Robin Hindle Fisher Chair, Big Society Capital Stephen BediakoFounder, Black Global Trust; Co-Founder Pathway Fund Dame Julia Cleverdon Chair...
...One reason Greece’s restructuring took ages is that even European potentates — such as the ECB’s Jean-Claude Trichet — were deeply sceptical about this tactic....
...French law firm Gide has hired Marcus Billam, Jean-Baptiste de Martigny and Alexandre Durand as M&A partners in Paris. They were previously at Darrois Villey Maillot....
...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...By bringing the fair to Paris, Robins is reinforcing this Franco-American alliance. “Our relationship to the luxury world is paramount,” he says....
...The important thing for her has always been “the emotion that a garment creates”, she says, nestled on the furry sofa of her small shop floor, immaculate in light blue jeans, shirt and a herringbone jacket...
...Jean-Jacques and Catherine Schul Lasne, Belgium...
...The moment arrived on October 18 1922, when Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre opened its doors for the debut of Douglas Fairbanks’ latest silent film, Robin Hood....
...According to most insiders, Bloomberg’s likely successor as CEO is Jean-Paul Zammitt, a company veteran....
...“Exhibitions are about connecting a wider audience to the brand, bringing us closer to these otherwise distant objects and rarefied worlds,” says Rebecca Robins, a brand adviser and author....
...For nearly 40 years, Muriel de Curel has been presiding over La Fête des Plantes at the Château Saint-Jean de Beauregard, her family’s home just over half an hour’s journey by train from the centre of Paris...
...Perriand-Barsac, an interior designer who studied with Jean Prouvé, went on to work alongside Perriand at her studio for some 20 years until her mother’s death, aged 96, in 1999....
...“Before the pandemic, everyone was questioning the fairs,” says Jean-Marc Pontroué, chief executive of Panerai, one of the Richemont group of brands exhibiting in Geneva....
...And he likes to see himself also as Robin Hood, who is going to take away from the rich and give to the poor....
...Panerai’s chief executive, Jean-Marc Pontroué, admits that, on paper, the two companies have “nothing in common”, and says the partnership is “about protecting the environment” — adding, “it’s not more sophisticated...
...The sums behind the deal, which included the currently dormant brand Jean Richard, were not disclosed, but Pruniaux, who had been Ulysse Nardin and Girard-Perregaux’s chief executive, says he is now the...
...Its leading advocate is Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of dozens of pioneering studies on the topic. But it is still far from universally accepted....
...The words in La Voix humaine are by Jean Cocteau, those for Les Mamelles by Guillaume Apollinaire. Pelly, French, has both directed and designed the costumes....
...In 2021, Allen made her theatrical debut in Danny Robins’ supernatural thriller, 2:22, A Ghost Story, playing a young woman convinced her house is haunted. The show was a hit....
...“Here is the problem,” Robin Sloan wrote, “Wordcraft is too SENSIBLE. Which of course is a great success for the language model: it knows what’s sensible! Wow!...
...I am learning to appreciate one of the widely marketed substitutes, Euonymus japonicus Jean Hugues. It will stop at a height of about 3ft if clipped and is totally hardy....
...The beauty of the watch industry is that it is small but has a voice, says Jean-Marc Pontroué, Panerai chief executive....
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