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Ultraluxe proprietors talk less about amenities and more about personalization, experience and authenticity. Service is everything. "We have to anticipate your needs," says Atef Mankarios, former ceo of the St. Regis and Rosewood Hotels, who is overseeing a development planned for Punta de Mita, Mexico. At the recently opened Fouquet's Barričre Paris, where rooms start at about $800 per night, guests are encouraged to fill out a "favorites" form before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind...
...Julie Fouquet ’80, undergraduate representative to the ACSR and chairwoman of the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard’s Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR), had resigned from the ACSR in February of 1979. She told The Crimson that she did so because she felt that the committee was “stalling” on the South Africa issue and was prioritizing financial benefits over moral responsibilities...
...Their children were just a way of supplementing their income a little," says Yves Crespin, attorney for l'Enfant Bleu, a child-protection association in Bagnolet. "Parents and their friends were smoking cigarettes in the next room while men raped their children and the children were crying," says Alain Fouquet, lawyer for 11 of the allegedly assaulted children. "It was like a bridge party, or teatime. It's monstrous...
...scene from a bad spy novel. There I was leaning against a kiosk on the Champs Elysees, furtively looking at a small black-and-white photo and trying to spot the elusive Pierre, an Internet legend who tries to stay out of the spotlight. I surveyed the tables at Fouquet's, the fashionable outdoor cafe where we had agreed to meet. No dice. How hard can it be to pick out a geek entrepreneur who's worth more than $5 billion...
...biblical times, those who handled his kind of work were occasionally stoned to death. Robin Hood and his Merry Men may have put many an arrow into the rumps of this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...