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...The French meringue is said to be the fluffiest and sweetest of any dessert, and that is certainly what Offenbach cooked up when he wrote his 1869 opéra bouffe, La Princesse de Trébizonde....
...centro Lätt 02 coffee table by Raúl de la Cerda for Difane, 31,179 pesos ($1,829) Handmade in three Mexican marble varieties. difane.com.mx Rainbow bench and stool by Lilia Cruz Corona Garduño, €15,000...
...Bruegel to Rubens, arriving in Oxford next week after its winter showing in Antwerp, displays the crème de la crème of these holdings, some never previously exhibited, all rarely seen for reasons of fragility...
...A three-month internship at Oscar de la Renta (where she worked with Adam Lippes) became a five-year job, before she went on to work at Alberta Ferretti and Bottega Veneta (with Tomas Maier)....
...This is not the first time that programmes to support independent and relatively unknown watchmakers have been launched....
...That call was from authorities, informing him that Cassandre had been found dead in La Quebrada de San Lorenzo, along with her friend Houria....
...Man Ray chose Eugène Atget’s view of a crowd on the Place de la Bastille looking up at a solar eclipse in 1912 as the cover for La Révolution surréaliste in 1926....
...The extent of the threat of climate change for marine habitats is still unknown....
...The Serra de Tramuntana, a mountain range named after the fierce north wind, runs the length of Mallorca’s north-west coast....
...Sur Place (2007) was set amid the Paris youth protests of 2006, while her first feature La Bataille de Solférino (2013) was about a TV news reporter covering political campaigning on the Paris street that...
...While they are relatively unknown in Europe, they presented a strong piece, Quartet for Five, as part of an LA Dance Project bill last autumn in Paris....
...The group also includes the most beautiful of the six simplified, tender-sombre “L’Arlésienne” portraits, depicting Madame Ginoux, proprietress of Arles’ Café de la Gare; only in this version are the flat...
...On my last visit I picked up Sali e Tabacchi, a journal exploring Italy’s unknown rituals, habits and traditions. museomacro.it Thea Hawlin Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, Cornwall This seaside...
...Arriving in the Society Islands in 1768, French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville “thought [he] was transported into the Garden of Eden”....
...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...
...Leftwing critics, exemplified by Georges Clemenceau’s front page in the newspaper “La Justice”, claimed victory for secular materialism....
...Raúl de la Cerda’s jigsaw-like modular tables (£15,971) are inspired by Mayan estelae, used to document significant events in stone....
...“It’s one of the most stunning landscapes I’ve ever seen,” our South African guide, Kyle de Nobrega, tells my fellow passengers, a wealthy Filipino named Andoni Aboitiz and his son, Kasen....
...She tells how her latest collection, La Trahison de l’Objet, was created in direct response to what she describes as Lebanon’s “financial fallout and ugly consequences borne by its people” and explores the...
...They strolled in the September heat across the town square, past the Parc de la Pinède, for lunch at their favourite restaurant, Le Perroquet. The couple ordered lamb, as usual....
...Still, if you are à la recherche d’un autoroute service station snack, it is the perfect option....
...In the mid-20th century, poet John Heath-Stubbs described the area west of St Ives as “a hideous and wicked country” and Walter de la Mare detected “a brooding of evil” in the cliffs around Land’s End....
...Ushered into a party in the garden of the collecting couple Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, he says he was struck by two things that went on to define the fair’s success: the overlooked sophistication of the...
...Loosely based on Angot’s novel Un tournant de la vie, Both Sides of the Blade is another study of a woman’s desire for men, but Denis rejects the idea that the two films are any kind of diptych....
...For me a comfortable three-week European holiday would involve staying at La Réserve de Beaulieu. And that’s your annual budget busted. It’s clearly time to build a cost-of-living spreadsheet....
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