Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 192 pages; $28. Chatto & Windus; £14.99
The House of Fragile Things. By James McAuley.
Yale University Press; 320 pages; $30 and £25
Göring s Man in Paris. By Jonathan Petropoulos.
Yale University Press; 456 pages; $37.50 and £25
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N DECEMBER 21ST 1936 artistic luminaries gathered in the courtyard of an elegant town house in Paris, waiting for the speeches to begin. Number 63 rue de Monceau had belonged to a banker called Moïse de Camondo; his wife Irène, the daughter of another banking family, had as a girl been painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, her red hair tied with a blue ribbon. In wealthy middle-age Camondo had torn down the house his parents built when they emigrated to Paris from Constantinople, and sold or given away everything they brought with them, even the precious Judaica.
Roger Moore as The Saint
To everyone’s surprise, this quintessentially French series, with its debut episode shot inside the Louvre, has become a top-10 hit on Netflix. Yet what better escape from pandemic and impeachment than light-hearted capers through the drawing rooms and across the rooftops of Paris? Sy is the kind of charismatic actor viewers would follow anywhere. His grin could charm the diamonds off a dowager and does.
Bravado has always been Lupin’s trademark. The entire production is as stylish, choreographed and silly as the pre-credits teaser in a James Bond movie. And it’s beautiful. Cinematographers Christophe Nuyen and Martial Schmeltz fill every episode with rich colour and texture: moody night-time boulevards, sparkling jewels, noir shadows. Even a hoodie looks luxurious in this light.
The six-bedroom, 8.5-bath property was designed to house the sellers’ art collection and accommodate their children when they were young, Malkin thinks the residence with its lovely limestone and black granite could attract a variety of buyers.
Lupin has made the French capital the certified hottest location on screen.
Led by Omar Sy as Assane Diop, a gentleman burglar devoted to 19th-century fictional thief Arsène Lupin, it’s a crime series in the vein of our own
Sherlock – equal parts action, character study and how-dunnit – that also makes the very best of its settings, both familiar and unknown. Here’s our guide to the key locations in the first set of five episodes.
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THE LOUVRE
The star location of Episode 1 is hard to miss: Assane’s first adventure is at the Louvre, where he stages a daring heist to steal a necklace that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. Filming took place in the galleries and the lobby beneath the IM Pei-designed Pyramid, and we see Delacroix’s
Illinois Most Expensive Home Is a $18.75M Mansion in Chicago s Gold Coast Neighborhood
Illinois Most Expensive Home Is a $18.75M Mansion in Chicago s Gold Coast Neighborhood
On the market for $18,750,000, this massive mansion in Chicago s Gold Coast neighborhood is the priciest home for sale in Illinois.
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It s now on the market for $18,750,000 and listed by
Katherine Malkin of Compass. The prodigious price tag makes it the most expensive home for sale in Illinois.
The six-bedroom, 8.5-bath property was designed to house the sellers’ art collection and accommodate their children when they were young, Malkin thinks the residence with its lovely limestone and black granite could attract a variety of buyers.