Hints and tips:
...In passport terms, I’m blessed. I was born with a lucky citizenship, and have now upgraded to the best of the 200 or so on earth, as judged by Kälin and Kochenov’s Quality of Nationality index....
...He governs in a very tight way, ave l’Elysée with a very close circle of highly-trained technocrat....
...I use it every day. £399, sonos.com My wellbeing guru is my naturopath Valérie Espinasse, who’s based in Paris. I’m fond of a holistic approach to health....
...Collectible, Vanderborght Building, 50 Rue de l’Ecuyer, 1000 Brussels (collectible.design). Valerie Traan Gallery, 12 Reyndersstraat, 2000 Antwerp (valerietraan.be)....
...French conservative daily L’Opinion summed up. The ruling was met with relative indifference elsewhere....
...Bacon’s sources were photographic; he incorporated camera blur, made a virtue of deformation: “when I’m dead people will realise how natural my distortions are.”...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Giacometti – specifically L’Homme qui Marche, which is so precise but poetic....
...At one point we see him confiding to a friend: “They treat me like I’m just a technocrat.”...
...Opened Pied à Terre in 1993, L’Autre Pied in 2007 and Van Zellers (in Harrogate) in 2009....
...At his press conference on Tuesday, the president said stepping in to prevent Dieudonné M’bala M’bala from performing a work entitled “The wall” was fully justified....
...“As I’m a full-time working mother of two, I need the flexibility that this allows me,” Blampied says....
...Critics and audiences failed spectacularly with I’m Still Here, Casey Affleck’s documentary about the turned-out-fictional fall of Joaquin Phoenix....
...Among the attractions at its flagship store in Paris is the world’s largest beauty department, occupying 4,000 sq m over two floors....
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