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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?...
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...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 first show will be of new work by 88-year old textile artist Sheila Hicks. This will be followed by an exhibition of late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe....
...Melding the theatricality of David Hicks with a Wes Anderson palette, this chromatic approach, she says, makes for brilliantly effortless accessorising....
...“The EU needs the energy co-operation of the Gulf states,” he told the newspaper l’Opinion....
...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’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....
...The surviving Grade I-listed building dates from the early 19th century and has a trompe l’oeil medieval appearance with a central tower....
...energy markets over high prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, writes Victor Mallet in Paris....
...Inspired by traditional Mediterranean architecture, the arches lead the eye towards a dining area with a stainless-steel kitchen at the centre and a Gio Ponti table covered by a trompe-l’oeil embroidered...
...“[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...
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