Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind
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French President Emmanuel Macron presented Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with several gifts during his official visit to France, including a reproduction of the Charlemagne chessmen and some iconic works of French literature. Modi was also presented with a photo of an Indian Sikh soldier in World War I, who fought alongside France. He also received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, the highest French honour in military or civilian orders.
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