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...The brand, which soon attracted King Louis-Philippe as a customer, continues to be known for its French-made candlesticks, cutlery and champagne buckets....
...Victor Mallet’s article on how French vineyards are responding to the challenge of climate change (Report, August 27) reminded me of my own time working for Yves Couvreur’s father as a 17-year-old schoolboy...
...Her assortment often includes pieces dating back to the ’50s by Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel....
...And champagne, but never before five o’clock....
...Yves Couvreur traces the lineage of his winemaking family in Champagne back through almost a dozen generations to 1644....
...Until recently, I couldn’t get enough of the garment that Yves Saint Laurent wished he’d invented....
...In 2013 I was assured by a Paris-based wine lover that I absolutely had to taste the wines of Jean-Yves Bizot in Vosne-Romanée....
...Like champagne and Chanel, it is seen by the French as a brand that defines quality and refinement in an international ambassadorial fashion....
...One of the first places in Paris to source eastern European natural wines, Septime Cave also shines for its natural champagne selection....
...Le Bon Marché, 24 Rue de Sèvres, 75007 Paris And the best gift I’ve received is a silk Yves Saint Laurent brooch with a single white flower, from my partner Alexandre....
...No celebration is complete without a glass of Krug champagne. And Steven, my husband. If he is not there, no party is complete....
...It was edited by flamboyant maximalist Maxime de la Falaise, a cook, model and muse of Yves Saint Laurent....
...I reckon it is OK with me, so he orders us two glasses of champagne “as an aperitif”....
...“It’s looking very good,” said Yves Couvreur, a grower and producer who is president of the union of independent winegrowers of Champagne....
...Possible successors to Mr Morneau as finance chief include Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister; François-Philippe Champagne, her successor at foreign affairs; and Jean-Yves Duclos, Treasury Board president...
...No celebration is complete without Drappier Brut Nature champagne. It has no sulphites added to it and is a bit more interesting than you’d normally expect from a young champagne. And a candlelit room....
...Touching the moonlight Interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon will be reinterpreting the Deco interiors (he redesigned London’s smaller but similarly lavish Art Deco Savoy Hotel), while architects SOM have...
...On New Year’s Day, they enter the Atlantic waves with bottles of champagne in hand....
...Alongside their classic picnic or gardening trunks are examples of Champagne trunks, polo trunks, caviar trunks....
.... €2.75 for 250g, Du Pain et Des Idées, 34 Rue Yves Toudic, 75010 Paris (dupainetdesidees.com) An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is Noto in Sicily....
...“The name ‘Champagne’ had already been claimed by a group of champagne producers.” Protecting a good fragrance name is a complicated business and can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands....
...I choose the foie gras to start and chicken poached in champagne to follow. He orders tomato juice, passing up my suggestion of wine....
...Never mind the water, I’ve sipped the champagne, dined on the food and slept on the 600-thread-count sheets that attend my journalistic participation....
...The left limited its losses by keeping five regions, including Brittany, where defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was running, and Languedoc, where former junior minister Carole Delga beat the FN and the...
...Yves Bot, the advocate general of the European Court of Justice, whose advice the ECJ often broadly follows, in September said minimum pricing would be legal only if Edinburgh could show it was the only...
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