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...A few hours before OpenAI’s board sacked its chief executive, starting a five-day soap opera that has gripped the global artificial intelligence community, Xavier Niel unveiled an attempt to create a French...
...“We’re talking about the cars used by Mr and Mrs Everybody here,” Xavier Horent, head of dealership lobby group Mobilians, told BFM TV before the results were announced on Sunday....
...Alexander Melnikov was the fortepiano soloist in the Piano Concerto No 23, K488, nearly inaudible in this huge hall....
...But under excellent, concise conducting from Thomas Wilkins, the star of the show was young bassist Xavier Foley....
...New contemporary art spaces, such as Fondation Blan, are emerging and established players are expanding: last August, Xavier Hufkens celebrated its 35th anniversary by adding a 2,200sq m modern building...
...The slow movement of the Piano Concerto in G Major, one of Ravel’s most magical inventions, would cast a hush over any concert hall....
...More than 160 galleries – both big names (Gagosian, Lehmann Maupin, White Cube, David Zwirner) and boutique stars such as the Paris-founded Almine Rech and Belgian-based Xavier Hufkens – convened at Marina...
...Both of London’s main concert halls were in action, the Barbican with the most recent in the LSO Futures series and the Southbank Centre with the last events in SoundState, its five-day new-music festival...
...Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI perform ‘Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time’ at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on August 17 and ‘Istanbul 1710’ at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on August 18, eif.co.uk Letter in response...
...Xavier Bertrand, a contender for the centre-right nomination for France’s presidential election, may not be explicitly copying the winning formula of the Brexit campaign across the Channel....
...The glass ceiling holding RN back from higher executive office than the handful of town halls under its control is intact....
...The Hauts-de-France region north of Paris is led by Xavier Bertrand, a centre-right presidential hopeful and a potentially dangerous rival for Macron in next year’s election for the Elysée Palace....
...Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel gave a moving account of his struggles to be accepted as gay that “brought many to tears”, Rutte told the Financial Times....
...In a packed community hall in northern France, Valérie Pécresse, the newly anointed presidential candidate for the conservative Les Républicains, is making her pitch to party members — and elderly supporter...
...“He touches a pretty deep anguish,” says François-Xavier Bellamy, a member of the European Parliament for the conservative Les Républicains party....
...Some implied that intelligence services had not followed up warnings in summer 2015 that attacks were being planned against unspecified concert halls....
...Xavier Bertrand, the leading Republican presidential contender, described Macron as a “cold calculator, a destroyer”, in an interview last week with Le Figaro newspaper....
...The most prominent of these at the moment is Xavier Bertrand, leader of the Hauts-de-France region in the north, who has already declared his candidacy and promised to restore law and order and crush Islamists...
...The men appear to be studying each other closely, as they do in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall....
...Email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com or follow him on Instagram @lukeedwardhall Read Luke’s masterclass in interior design I’m tempted by shimmery metallic wallpaper for my dark Edwardian hallway....
...They basically bought the air rights above the old Steinway Hall to build it. I also love the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris by Frank Gehry....
...He made large donations to London’s Natural History Museum, which renamed its main entrance hall the Hintze Hall, and to restore Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel....
...Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Around My Room is a bizarre, funny travelogue about his journeys between bed, armchair and window, accompanied by his dog Rosine. He’s like the TE Lawrence of the carpet....
...Others have built tools to help governments become more data-driven, such as digital dashboards that allow town halls to explore data and build visualisations....
...“At the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, a few of my close friends passed away, including my business associate and partner in life, Xavier,” says Takada....
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