Word: dubreuil
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...Hampshire art pottery, and then moved on to the furniture of French architect Prouvé. After visiting one of Philippe Starck's hotels in the mid-1980s, Krakoff fell in love with the French designer's work. That led to an interest in French contemporary furniture designers like André Dubreuil, Olivier Gagnère and Eric Schmidt...
BEVERLY FARRAND DUBREUIL...
DOMINIQUE HERIARD DUBREUIL Chairman, Remy Cointreau...
When she took control of her family's 275-year-old French distiller in 1998, the venerable cognac brand, its sales flagging, looked ready to go under. A public relations executive, Heriard Dubreuil, 54, quickly sold off marginal assets such as a Bordeaux wine-trading company and pumped up marketing for the cognac. Now she has earned a toast of her own. In June she announced a 71% growth in profits for the year...
...Maroc-Presse braved threats, bombings and assassinations last year in the classic role of a newspaper sticking courageously to an unpopular editorial position. By urging negotiation with moderate Moroccan nationalists, the paper outraged French extremists, who beat up its staffers, smashed its offices, machine-gunned Publisher Jacques Le-maigre-Dubreuil to death (TIME, Aug. 8). Last fall the crusade triumphed: the French negotiated, just as Maroc-Presse urged, and restored Sultan ben Youssef. But the paper itself did not fare so well as its crusade. After the sultan's return, the suppressed Arab dailies reappeared, and native Moroccans went...