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Travel
The smartest way to the slopes: skiing by Venice Simplon-Orient- Express
...I find Victor, the barman, who recommends a 3674, a twist on a fine and dandy named after the carriage we’re standing in, which was built in 1931....
January 7, 2023
French presidential election
Macron defeats Le Pen to be re-elected French president
...In the 16th arrondissement of the capital, where Le Pen gave her concession speech, longtime far-right voter Maurice Blanc said: “We must throw all our energies into the next battle for the legislative elections...
April 25, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewAlbums
Soul Revivers’ On the Grove explores reggae links between London and Kingston
...The album ends with an instrumental version of the song, “Down River”, with trumpet from Ms Maurice (Sheila Maurice-Grey) replacing the vocals with a hint of highlife....
March 4, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France — the spirit of a nation
...Poirier’s other protagonists start with Bishop Maurice de Sully, who commissioned and financed the building of the cathedral on the Ile de la Cité....
April 10, 2020
Nilanjana Roy
Books to reach for in troubled times
...In the US, educationalists drew up lists of books that would spark creativity in children, from Dr Seuss to Maurice Sendak, and novels that would help troubled teenagers to navigate adolescence....
February 5, 2020
Stéphane Richard
French prosecutors call for jail time for Orange chief Stéphane Richard
...The prosecutors also sought jail terms for Maurice Lantourne, Mr Tapie’s former lawyer, Pierre Estoup and Jean-François Rocchi, but dropped charges against Bernard Scemama. The trial continues....
April 1, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Visual Arts
Versailles Revival — the march of history through art
...Negotiating peace terms in 1919, all the Allied victors except France pleaded for a neutral location in which to sign the settlement; Georges Clemenceau alone insisted on the 73-metre gilded Hall of Mirrors...
December 13, 2019
France
French politicians lead ceremony against anti-Semitism
...Maurice Dahan, a local Jewish leader, told the AFP news agency: “I want to vomit.” He continued: “It doesn’t stop, it’s one blow after another. I’m not sure how long we can hold on.”...
February 19, 2019
French politics
French Senate criticises Elysée in Benalla affair
...Benalla played no part in the Makhmudov contract, and Mr Crase insisted that he had negotiated it only after leaving his job at the Elysée in May last year, although both denials were contradicted by Jean-Maurice...
February 20, 2019
Christine Lagarde
Lagarde’s IMF legacy holds clues to her ECB presidency
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris...
August 30, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks — ghosts of the past
...And the mysterious “Victor Hugo” — whether he’s an actor or a spectre — would thoroughly approve....
August 31, 2018
Life & Arts
Interview: François Ozon on nationalism, avoiding sex and his new film Frantz
...Frantz is based loosely on a 1930 play by Maurice Rostand: “A story about lies and secrets; that was my interest in it,” Ozon says....
April 28, 2017
City InsiderHarriet Agnew
City Insider: Hedgies get the drift
...Victor Pinchuk: Upbeat evening Victor Pinchuk threw a private dinner at The Dorchester last Thursday to celebrate the settlement of a $2bn legal dispute on the eve of a High Court trial....
February 5, 2016
At Home with the FT
French ambassador urges UK to help shape a ‘reformed Europe’
...Victor Hugo once defined the terms of the Franco-British relationship....
June 16, 2016
Sport
New Zealand All Blacks: rugby’s all-time favourites
...It is a country where literary heavyweights such as Maurice Gee (The Big Season) and the Booker prize-shortlisted Lloyd Jones (The Book of Fame) have devoted novels to the game....
September 9, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT Magazine
The networker: Martin Sorrell of WPP
...“Maurice Saatchi used to say if you’re the best, you’ll be the biggest, which I have some sympathy for,” says Sorrell....
March 13, 2015
Life & Arts
A ride into the past
...Ninety-nine Tours de France have been won and lost since the inaugural victor, Maurice Garin, wrestled his La Française-Diamant towards the 1903 finish line in Paris....
June 28, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Notre-Dame de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
...This Notre-Dame moves on from 19th-century ballet versions of Victor Hugo’s novel to tell a streamlined, rather less sentimental story....
February 11, 2013
Life & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2014
...He writes “in praise of banality”, analyses Strauss’s Elektra and waxes lyrical about “the heart of Maurice Ravel”. Poulenc’s independence of spirit is emblazoned on every page....
June 27, 2014
European companies
Havas aims for growth in digital media
...Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP is 67, John Wren, chief of Omnicom, is 58 and Maurice Lévy of Publicis is 70....
July 30, 2012
ObituaryUK economy
Designer’s sharp eyes turned tide of war
...At 15, she went into fashion design with South-African-born British couturier Victor Stiebel in London and soon found Lady Mountbatten among her clients....
September 11, 2010
News in-depthThe Big Read
Iberian apprehension
...Maurice Lippens stepped down as Fortis chairman as that bank’s operations were nationalised in the Netherlands and put up for sale by the Belgian authorities....
December 15, 2008
ReviewLife & Arts
The great liquidity crisis – 94 years ago
...Having served as chef de cabinet to the scandal-prone finance minister Maurice Rouvier, Moreau was sidelined at the Algerian central bank....
January 3, 2009
World
US and China to meet in bid to cut tensions
...Those who paid for the meeting include Vincent Mai, chairman of AEA Investors; Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, chief executive of CV Starr; and the foundation of Tung Chee-hwa, the former Hong Kong chief executive...
February 21, 2008
UK schools
Tory donor among Brown's first list
...Maurice Bennett, entrepreneur, for services to the retail industry. Margaret Bent , senior research fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, for services to musicology....
December 29, 2007

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