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Michel Piccoli worked trouserless before it became mainstream. A still from Pierre Granier-Deferre's 1981 film "A Strange Affair" ("L'Étrange Affaire"). The circumstances in question are far from the humour with which a state of semi-undress is received today. The affair
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Recalling Titus Oates, the English conspirator and scoundrel of the seventeenth century, one cannot help thinking of our own contemporaries, who have inscribed their loathsome deeds in the book of the scum of all ages. Oates is known for having invented a certain Popish Plot to murder King Charles II.
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Van Dyck, Portrait of Henrietta Maria, Daughter of Henry IV of France and Sister of Louis XIII, with Sir Jeffrey Hudson. The 24-year-old queen is depicted in fashionable European dress, which the court ladies of England had begun to wear after her example. The orange tree in the
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- Your grandmother? - Not quite. This is Mozart's wife, the 78-year-old Constanze Weber.
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Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel
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Saint Gregory, Gregory the Great or Gregory the Dialogist, is usually depicted with a dove hovering at the level of his ear, symbolising the Holy Spirit. Gregory was elected Pope in 590, at the height of an epidemic of plague, which is believed to have ceased when he entered the
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