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...Tullio Serafin led the work’s premiere at the Milan house in 1913, winning the local audience’s favour, while the towering Victor de Sabata conducted a production two decades later....
...Creativity flowed in every way; Hugo’s writing at Hauteville House included novels Les Travailleurs de la Mer [Toilers of the Sea] and L’Homme Qui Rit [The Man Who Laughs], and poetry....
...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...The Berlin-born artist and curator read the tales of Victor Hugo and pored over street photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson, eventually arriving in the city to study in 1993; to this day, she takes every...
...Its first classic winner was Known Fact, victor in 1980’s 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket; Dancing Brave won a host of trophies including the 1986 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe; and then came Frankel, now arguably...
...Monet: The Restless Vision’ will be published by Penguin on October 12 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend Letter in response to this article: Making a bad impression / From R Victor...
...“The EU needs the energy co-operation of the Gulf states,” he told the newspaper l’Opinion....
...L’état, c’est moi’ The personalisation of postwar French politics can be traced back to the domineering de Gaulle, who oversaw the creation of the system that has endowed the president with substantial...
...There are novel South American touches of bossa nova and calypso as well on the optimistic “L’Espoir” and the vengeful “Ciao Bello”, their rhythms driven by cajón and shakers....
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...“There are too many migrants,” he says from behind the counter of his bar in La Ricamarie in the industrial valley of the L’Ondaine river that joins the Loire near Saint-Etienne, mirroring the complaints...
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...energy markets over high prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, writes Victor Mallet in Paris....
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...“[L]eaving citizens to their own devices is not the way of the Chinese Communist party,” concludes Vines in Defying the Dragon....
...The bulk of Belmondo’s career thereafter was in action and comedy films such as L’Homme de Rio (1964) and Le Magnifique (1973)....
...rightwing tycoon Vincent Bolloré that has been likened to Fox News in the US, said on Monday it was dropping Zemmour from his four-nights-a-week appearances following a ruling by the Conseil Supérieur de l’...
...Consommé à l’Impérial and lamb chops à l’Orientale were on the menu, and the programme of music for that day included, with exemplary British diplomacy, a selection from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, an opera...
...Andrew Rossman, a Quinn Emanuel lawyer who represented the victors in that case, is now advising Musk. None of which has stopped Musk tweeting....
...Victor Dawes SC, the association’s chair, said the move was “disappointing” and called for the remaining retired judges to stay. “Can we divorce this from politics? I don’t think so,” he said....
...And now Hervé Le Tellier takes a flight of fancy with The Anomaly, a tale of transcendent turbulence, copied souls and more than a dash of l’amour fou, which won the 2020 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious...
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) requires channels to showcase a range of opinions and impartially dole out time to politicians, especially during campaigns....
...The recent slap in the face in the southern town of Tain-l’Hermitage, to a shout of “Down with Macronism!”...
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