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26 juillet 2009

Nicole Tour 2 Paris Art Nouveau

Dear Everyone, I was so cross with myself for having run out of camera batteries yesterday, that I went back again today, with extra, just in case! This time, though, I began at 41, rue Chardon Lagache. This was the second building Guimard built for his...

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25 juillet 2009

Little Tour of Paris Art Nouveau

Dear Everyone, I was woken up in the early hours of the morning by an idea for a walk. A flash of inspiration indeed. So, off I set around 9h, armed with bottle of water, notebook and guidebook of Paris on a mission. A mission to find the best examples...

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23 juillet 2009

United Breaks Guitars

From The Guardian - this is brrrrrrrrrilliant! I think I shall write one, too, about the French Pension people who won't let me cash in my money until I'm 65, even if I'm not going to pay in anymore, there's over 3000 euros I really need and I'm leaving...

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19 juillet 2009

From The Telegraph

Walter Cronkite: The voice that spoke for America BBC broadcaster and a former Washington correspondent Edward Stourton pays tribute to Walter Cronkite, the legendary US newsreader, who has died aged 92. Edward Stourton Published: 7:00AM BST 19 Jul 2009...

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19 juillet 2009

From the Spiegel - now that's what I call brilliant!

A MINOR MIRACLE? Chocolate Company Promises Melt-Free Revolution By Alice Chalupny Chocolate is just as much a part of Switzerland as the Alps. Now, global market leader Barry Callebaut has developed the product that competitors have been hopelessly puzzling...

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5 juillet 2009

Talleyrand-Périgord and all that they surveilled...

Mes chers, Today we pushed off to the Château du Marais in the Essonne, the home of the Talleyrand-Périgord family, its parks, canals and great museum. It's been a beautiful day and was far too hot under our zinc roof...and besides, no point being indoors...

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5 juillet 2009

Square Louis XVI, Paris 8è

Dear Everyone, Happy 4th July to my American dears, first and foremost. Have a wonderful evening and know I'm thinking of you. Today I had lunch with Mariane, my Nicole's friend from school days. We met at St Lazare, had a very delicious (and fat-free...

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2 juillet 2009

The Guardian / NYT : Remaking Paris

Remaking Paris By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Published: June 8, 2009 Until he took office, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France never seemed destined to be a patron of architecture. In the weeks leading up to his election, more than a few architects I spoke with...

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2 juillet 2009

Acquittals overturned for Anna Politkovskaya

New York Times June 26, 2009 Retrial Ordered in Killing of a Russian Journalist By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ MOSCOW — Russia ’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittals of four men accused of involvement in the murder of the investigative journalist...

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28 juin 2009

Vaux Le Vicomte

Dear Everyone, What a day! Decided with Adrian to go off to Vaux Le Vicomte, the beautiful chateau in Seine et Marne, not too far from Fontaineblau. Interest piqued by the story of Louis XIV's Finance Minister, Nicolas Foucquet, who held an incredible...

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27 juin 2009

Hype or talent?

These articles below from the Daily Mail. Thanks for sending it, my dear. Well said, in both camps. For you to comment, though time will tell... ' It's all hype'says CHRISTOPHER HART He made me 'believe in magic,' says P. Diddy. 'His wonderment and mystery...

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26 juin 2009

Farrah Fawcett

Dear Everybody, With the breaking news of Michael Jackson's death, Farrah Fawcett's passing, also today, has gone almost unpublicised. She made rectal cancer something one could discuss, breached the frontiers of this terrible disease that one has trouble...

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25 juin 2009

Piano For Sale...

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24 juin 2009

Imposed freedom?

What a pleasure to read this. A breath of fresh air from today's Guardian. Bravo! Brush up your Hegel, Sarko Monsieur Président's burka outburst suggests he can't tell his abstract and concrete freedoms apart Stuart Jeffries guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 23...

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23 juin 2009

Kiki de Montparnasse

I was reading a fabulous site called the Minotaur, a kind of encyclopedia of the arts, and fell upon this piece about Kiki of Montparnasse. I'd never heard of her and the name grabbed me - it conjured up images of an artists model, garratts and everything...

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18 juin 2009

Diaghilev in Paris

Batten down the hatches - Sergei Diaghilev's back in Paris From The Guardian, 17 June 2009, by Lizzie Davies. A century on, ballets that led to fistfights in the aisles return to spiritual home Legend of the infamous Ballet Russes: Vaslav Nijinsky. Photograph:...

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13 juin 2009

Fancy an ambassadorship, anyone?

Dear Everyone, This hardly seems kosher does it? Donate a wad of cash and you too can have an ambassadorship... See below: Obama taps more big donors for ambassadorships Email this Story Jun 12, 12:16 AM (ET) By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) - President...

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13 juin 2009

Invisible Children...

Dear Everyone, I had no idea about the following, had never heard of Invisible Children Inc, nor the film. I knew of course about the child soldiers in Africa, but not to this extent. I only heard of this on Wednesday evening. Nicole's friend Jenna told...

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8 juin 2009

Euro vote...

Dear Everyone, Having spent most of the evening either working for the week's classes to come or on the phone to Mandita and Lucia, the news of Europe is shocking regarding Roumania. I heard this evening that Roumania have voted for three representatives...

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5 juin 2009

Poignant anniversaries

Dear Everyone, At dawn this morning 42 years ago, the Six Day War began. Israel attacked Egypt from the air and in less than a week, the army of the Hebrew State Tsahal lead by Moshe Dayan conquered Egyptian Sinaï, the Syrian plateau of Golan, Jordan,...

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