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...“Words are the only victors,” the novel proclaims at the end....
...Kylian Mbappé, the biggest star in French football, has told Paris Saint-Germain that he wants to leave the Ligue 1 champions at the end of the season....
...It’s usually lit on December 7 to mark the feast of Sant’Ambrogio, the city’s patron saint....
...On a late summer afternoon, children gathered on the Terrain de Sport des Jardins Saint-Paul, a paved area in Paris’s Le Marais district, are kicking balls against the westerly wall as others shoot hoops...
...The owner of French football champions Paris Saint-Germain has bought up almost 30 per cent of Portuguese side Braga....
...He highlights the Hannon house and the former home and studio of Belgian architect Victor Horta in Saint-Gilles as some of the city’s “most emblematic” examples, alongside Hôtel van Eetvelde, Hôtel Solvay...
...Highlights Al-Hilal signed Brazilian footballer Neymar, in a major coup for the Riyadh-based club, paying roughly €90mn to Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain....
...Another talking point of Christie’s auction was Paul Signac’s “Calanque des Canoubiers (Pointe de Bamer), Saint-Tropez” (1896), which was at the centre of a London High Court claim in 2020....
...Born into a modest peasant family near Calais in 1856, Pétain saw the army as a route to advancement and graduated from the prestigious Saint-Cyr academy....
...Victor Lazarte, the co-founder and chief of gaming start-up Wildlife Studios, has joined venture capital firm Benchmark as a general partner....
...They include Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen, with his distinctive Batman-style face protector, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia....
...Fabienne Bony in Nuits-Saint-Georges said she was looking forward to a decent yield after consecutive harvests were hit first by the 2020 drought and then by a savage frost that damaged the vines the following...
...The elevation on Thursday of Coquerel — an MP in Seine-Saint-Denis north of Paris for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s red-green alliance, the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nupes) — came after Nupes become...
...Naella Amman, a third-year law student at Saint-Etienne’s Jean Monnet university, is just as fed up with the state of France under Macron as the bar owner Lermet....
...Victor Mallet in Paris, Sam Jones in Zurich, Akila Quinio in Esquelbecq, Raphael Minder in Warsaw, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli in Milan and Alice Hancock in Brussels...
...The eventual victor, leftwinger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had his own explanation: “I think he is afraid that if I win the election, I will find out what Bolsonaro pardoned from his income tax debt.”...
...I find Victor, the barman, who recommends a 3674, a twist on a fine and dandy named after the carriage we’re standing in, which was built in 1931....
...Nestled in the idyllic village of Saint-Paul de Vence, the Fondation Maeght this summer welcomes the glorious abstract art collection of Jean Claude Gandur, a Swiss businessman and philanthropist who made...
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...“I am like Saint Thomas, I would like to believe, but we need to see real action . . . We need to be sure that these are not troop rotations but withdrawals.”...
...Winds of change in Saint-Brieuc The bay of Saint-Brieuc is one of France’s richest fishing areas — from scallops and whelks to cuttlefish, spider crabs and lemon sole — and fishermen fear the noise disturbance...
...Bonhams has bought the Paris auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr, its fourth regional auction house acquisition since the start of this year....
...Then there are the clothes from Area designers Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk that resemble bravado reclamations of Vegas showgirl costumes, with dripping Victor/Victoria wigs of crystal and cupped bras...
...said he would back the new LR candidate but immediately warned her that the presidency “will be won on the right” — Pécresse said she would kick off her presidential campaign in the southern village of Saint-Martin-Vésubie...
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