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...Six days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Valery Gergiev has gone from international celebrity to pariah of the classical world....
...This prompted Pompidou to remark: “If you are in politics you shouldn’t own a château unless it’s been in the family at least since Louis XV.”...
...The café’s minority owner is Jean-Louis Costes, co-creator of the high-fashion Café Costes, frequented by Paris’s beautiful people. The Esplanade is calmer....
...and finance such as Henri de Castries of Axa and Louis Gallois, the former EADS chief executive....
...KBW is owned by Stifel Financial, which is based out of St Louis, Missouri....
...In 1979, the newspaper revealed that Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then French president, had as finance minister been offered two diamonds from the dictator of the Central African Republic....
...Mauny General Manager, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Serge Dorny Director, Opéra de Lyon Bernard Foccroulle Director, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Peter Gelb General Manager, The Metropolitan Opera Valery...
...Louis Lortie is the scintillating piano soloist in the concertante sections of the Fourth Symphony....
...At Covent Garden, a colleague whom he once took backstage to meet Valery Gergiev was able to witness the habitual Klinger/conductor greeting. “Maestro!” “Larry!” “Maestro!” “Larry!”...
...In the “Louis-Philippe” bedroom, a glass drinks set with sugar bowl and carafe, which is undated, has an estimate of only €50-€80....
...A century on, his entry for Tuesday April 16 from St Louis has taken on a poignant tone. “We travelled 290 miles last night and are now 1,088 miles from New York,” he writes....
...“We’re looking at two versions regarding the crash: either it was human error, or a technological failure in the system of the aircraft,” Valery Okulov, deputy transport minister, told reporters....
...Thirty years ago, President Valery Giscard d’Estaing dared to hint that France had become a “middle-sized world power”....
...Curated by musical director and conductor Valery Gergiev, the proceedings open on May 21 with choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s staging of The Little Humpbacked Horse and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra’s...
...It was at its peak in the 1970s thanks to the friendship between President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt....
..., de Castries tells me that one of the reasons for the prominence of his Ena class was that they graduated in 1980, shortly before Francois Mitterrand was elected president, evicting the centre-right’s Valery...
...Louis Bacon (of Moore Capital) when returning capital to investors commented: ”Size matters. It is the bane of the successful money manager”....
...The European convention, led by former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, was established in December 2001 to produce a draft constitution....
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