Rembrandt and Rubens may be turning in their graves. The latest show at the venerable Louvre sees blood, bones and beetles cohabiting with the grand masters of the Dutch, Flemish and German schools. France’s biggest museum has invited a contemporary artist to show works ”in counterpoint” with those of the old masters.
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/ 20 December 2007
In food-obsessed France, distinguishing between the tart and the bitter or the crunchy and the crackly, or even simply sorting good food from bad, became part of the school year nearly two decades ago. So it is almost routine to march a class of 10-year-olds into one of the world’s most sought-after restaurants for a morning of munching through platefuls of delicacies whipped up by one of the country’s top chefs.
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/ 28 November 2007
Widows long ago racked up a name for themselves in France’s bubbly Champagne region, where the most celebrated of all, Veuve (Widow) Cliquot, struck gold over 100 years ago by discovering how to turn the cloudy tipple sparkling clear. As Champagne, now a victim of its success faces a turning-point in history, a new widow joins the elite club of top tipplers — with a weighty agenda on her plate.
Did Jim Morrison OD on a nightclub toilet or die of a drug-induced heart attack in a bathtub at home? Thirty-six years after the death in Paris of the <i>Doors</i> legend, biographers are locking horns over his final hours. The latest book on the life and times of Morrison says he was found slumped behind a locked toilet door on July 3 1971 in the Rock’n Roll Circus.
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/ 10 February 2003
It was France’s first national truffle fete and the crowds were acting a bit like the wild boar that like to root the luxury fungus out of the soil.
After virtual travel and virtual games, how about becoming a virtual art collector with a share in a multi-million-euro Vincent Van Gogh you can peruse at leisure on the Internet.