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Maisons du Monde (French pronunciation: [mɛzõ dy mõd(ə)], Houses of the world) is a French furniture and home decor company founded in Brest in 1996 by Xavier Marie. At the end of 2015, it had nearly 250 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and in Switzerland, of which more than 180 are in France.
In August 2020, Majorelle Investments – an investment holding company co-controlled by Gabriel Naouri and Daniel Kretinsky – announced owning more than 5% of furniture and home decor company Maisons du Monde. [22] In March 2021, Majorelle Investments announced owning more than 10% of the company. [22] [23]
The Cité internationale universitaire de Paris was established after World War I by André Honnorat, rector at the Sorbonne, in cooperation with Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe, in order to create a meeting place for students, researchers and intellectuals from around the world in a spirit of peace, unity and friendly cooperation.
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In 1977, pastry chef Robert Linxe opened the first La Maison du Chocolat in Paris. Linxe was trained as a chocolatier in Bayonne, France and Switzerland. He later opened three more boutiques within Paris in 1987–1989, with a boutique in New York City opening in 1990. In 1995, Geoffroy d’Anglejan was named general manager of La Maison du ...
The Maison du Peuple (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ dy pœpl], lit. ' House of the People ') in Clichy, classified as official historical monument of France (Monument Historique) since 1983, is a building built from 1935 to 1939 in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne by the architects Eugène Beaudouin, Marcel Lods, the engineer Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé.
It’s 2011 and I’m on a plane to Miami. I’m ready to soak up some sun and kick back at my sister’s apartment in South Beach. As an afterthought, I’ve agreed to go to one of the largest electronic music festivals in the world, Ultra, for the first time.
The Dupont de Ligonnès family was an aristocratic family originally from Annonay, [1] in the Vivarais region in south-eastern France. Ancestors include Édouard du Pont de Ligonnès (1797–1877), who married Sophie de Lamartine, sister of the poet Alphonse de Lamartine, and whose youngest son, Charles du Pont de Ligonnès, became the Bishop ...