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PARIS — You know political speculation has gotten out of control when even children are badgering the French prime minister on who his successor will be. Rife conjecture, lengthy talks and a ...

The U.K. government is hoping to save a painting by the 18th century artist Jean-Antoine Watteau for the nation. Le Rêve de L’Artiste (1710), valued at just over £6 million ($7.9 million), has ...

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A security crisis in the French pacific island territory of New Caledonia and parliamentary snap elections this year caused additional expenses, he added. Outgoing Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire ...

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We use many French terms in everyday English, some of which, such as déjà vu and hors d’oeuvre are conspicuous, however the vast majority do not feel foreign at all. We look at seven of them. While a ...

Carving the lettering for the British Memorial Garden by Julian and Isabel Bannerman to the victims of 9/11 BRIAN SMITH He was equally at home in the perversity of the rococo. His fascination with ...

All that frothing sensuality was certainly one of the hallmarks of 18th-century French Rococo. The archshowman of the style, François Boucher, was born in Paris in 1703. Flora Yukhnovich ...

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