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Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto Exhibition Opens Saturday, 16 September...
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Jeremy Irons and the rescue of Kilcoe Castle
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Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
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Goodwood Revival 2023 | Friday Day 1
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Revisiting The Gentlemen's Clubs of London by Anthony Lejeune From 1980, to...
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Garrick Club could admit women
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The American Obsession with "Frenchness" 3. Three Newport Mansions.
The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the...
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The American Obsession with “Frenchness”
Since the diplomatic “missions” of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to the court of Louis XVI, Lafayette … and the Marshall Plan, the cultural attraction of the U.S. for France has...
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The Emily in Paris fantasy tour
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