Andre Malraux
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Christian Louboutin: ‘If you love it, it’s never too much’
- Interiors
- October 11, 2020, 06:05
The shoemaker to the rich and famous, finds inspiration in childhood, conversation, collecting... and guinness beer cans When Christian Loubouti(...)

Revealed: The fight to stop Samuel Beckett winning the Nobel prize
- Books
- January 17, 2020, 10:32
Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the Nobel committee had about givi(...)

Samuel Beckett rejected as unsuitable for the Nobel prize in 1968
- Culture
- January 11, 2019, 06:00
Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, but newly released archives reveal that just a year earlier, the secretive committee that se(...)

The beginning of French politics as we know it
- Europe
- September 4, 2018, 01:00
France’s Fifth Republic was born 60 years ago on Tuesday, when General Charles de Gaulle published a new constitution. It was the beginning of French (...)

Versailles shows the enduring power of the French state
- Europe
- August 4, 2016, 01:00
Between economic, political and social crisis, and jihadist attacks that have claimed 234 lives in France since January 2015, the country sometimes se(...)

Lara Marlowe: France has a fatal attraction to the Middle East
- Opinion
- January 26, 2016, 19:20
The French writer and statesman André Malraux allegedly predicted that “the 21st century will be a century of religion or it will not be at all.” Th(...)

The naive and the knowing of Haitian art
- Visual Art
- January 12, 2015, 01:00
It seems miraculous that a country so blighted by slavery, dictatorship, epidemics, poverty and natural disasters should produce such original and (...)

France considers sending Delacroix masterpiece to China
- Europe
- December 13, 2013, 01:00
France’s culture minister, Aurélie Filippetti, took an emphatically negative position yesterday in the growing controversy over whether Paris should l(...)

Braque is back: French cubist finally escapes Picasso
- Culture
- November 11, 2013, 01:00
‘Was Picasso the misfortune of Braque?” asks Brigitte Leal, the commissioner of the splendid Georges Braque retrospective at the Grand Palais. Picasso(...)

Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard place
- Europe
- October 21, 2013, 01:00
It was a day devoted to the quest for heroes, in an age that no longer seems to produce them. Three former prime ministers, six of France’s leading hi(...)