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French voters seem ready to find out. Polls show Royal leading the field of prospective candidates for next year's presidential election, which could make her the country's first female head of state. (In May 1991, President Fran??ois Mitterrand appointed France's first and only woman Prime Minister, Edith Cresson--and tossed her aside in less than a year.) Royal still has to take on France's hoary political establishment, which isn't quite so ready to yield to her popularity. French political parties remain clannish, ideological nests dominated by their male leaders. "All the polls show French...
...Nancy before attaining the classical educational polish of the French political élite: a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and another from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), where her class included the current Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, and her partner, Socialist Party secretary Fran??ois Hollande. She met Hollande there in 1978 and had their first child...
...years the luxury sector, now a $140 billion business growing at approximately 7% a year, according to the Telsey Advisory Group (TAG), an independent research firm based in Manhattan, has been populated by a handful of familiar faces: Bernard Arnault of LVMH, Fran??ois-Henri Pinault of PPR and the odd manager of Gucci or president of Chanel. But cash-rich private-equity firms have taken note of the impressive numbers those companies are posting. Gross profit margins for apparel are 50%, and for leather goods they can be as high as 77%, according...
...Europe has always been a source of innovation in the beauty sector, particularly in fragrance and skin care. Fran??ois Coty made his name by selling fragrance in small, decorative bottles. L'Oréal was started by a young Parisian chemist when he invented the first safe synthetic hair color in 1907. Brands like Helena Rubinstein and Estée Lauder were founded on skin-care formulas based on East European traditions. More recently, big beauty conglomerates such as L'Oréal and Estée Lauder have been shopping for new, innovative brands in old, familiar places like France, Spain...
Live in a natural-wine-free locale? A bottle, or more probably a case, is just a few keystrokes away. You might start your search with the websites of importers Jenny & Fran??ois (worldwide wine net) Louis/ Dressner (louis dress ner.com and Kermit Lynch (ker mit lynch.com) However you get a bottle, once you develop a taste for artisanal wine, it may be hard to return to your old favorites. But that's just fine, because as more drinkers demand such wines, more winemakers will take the plunge and go natural...