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...Through the latest fashion, a Second Empire crinoline, he claims bourgeois grandeur as heir to the antique muses: Inès Moitessier, a banker’s wife, seated on her throne-like rose settee, is as coolly impassive...
...“It is one of the busiest streets in Jaipur – a prime address, our Fifth Avenue equivalent,” says Siddharth Kasliwal, one of the seventh- generation heirs to his family business....
...In 2010, when I created a rainforest garden with the help of gold medallist Ann-Marie Powell and three women from the Baka community to raise awareness about the pressures faced by the indigenous people...
...Accident also played its part, with promising heirs carried off by disease or rulers losing their minds, such as the Ottoman ruler known as “Ibrahim the Crazy”....
...Forster lost both his sons and heirs during the first world war and, heartbroken, left Britain to take up the role of governor-general of Australia, selling Exbury to de Rothschild in 1919....
...this year revealed her as a modern version of Marie Antoinette, on an internet shopping spree for diamonds and Christian Louboutin shoes....
...At the same time Opec rose to power; the US military assumed protection of the Gulf; and concerns grew that the world might run out of oil....
...On this basis, they ruled it “plausible” that the accounts’ proceeds had not been paid over to Freud or his heirs. This was enough, given the tribunal’s deliberately relaxed standards of proof....
...Asked why he wrote The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco replied that he “felt like poisoning a monk”....
...Finally, Rose Marie Bravo, who helped turn round the British fashion business Burberry, stepped down this year....
...Born in 1953 in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, Marie-Segolene later grew up in France, in a village in Lorraine with her two older sisters and five brothers....
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