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...sprawling Parisian townhouse. Tension in the street gradually increased until the inevitable explosion shook the entire street - a detonation preceded by an eerie silence punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President Jacques Chirac. This time, the Socialist faithful were yelling out of joy and relief that it was their candidate, Segolene...
...Five years ago tonight, it was if the world learned France was racist and xenophobic," says Mohammed Driss, 43, a leftist voter who, like hundreds of others, came to Rue Solferino to await the initial election results on Sunday night. "Tonight, France sent a new message: 2002 was a big mistake...
...buzz Sunday night on Rue Solferino was that to lure Bayrou voters behind Royal, Socialists would seize on another factor in first-round polling: Le Pen's collapse, which saw his share of the vote almost halved from the tally he scored in 2002. Much of that erosion, analysts say, came as a result of Sarkozy's unabashed efforts to seduce Le Pen voters with hard-line positions on crime, immigration, and dealing with France's troubled suburban housing projects. Socialist supporters believe that by associating Sarkozy with the politics of Le Pen, they can persuade centrist voters to back...
Stephanie Seymour was his first supermodel, and word spread quickly. Seven years later, he opened his color salon. Initially, he worked only with people in fashion. "Then Deneuve called, and suddenly I had the entire cinema world and then the music world." 9 rue de Guénégaud...
...comprising four classic scents?No. 22, Gardenia, Bois des Iles and Cuir de Russie?and six new ones created by Polge. Like many of Chanel's fragrances, all of the new scents, packaged in identical bottles, have names that relate uniquely to the iconography of the renowned house: 31 Rue Cambon is the address that was Mlle. Chanel's apartment, atelier and boutique, and Coromandel evokes the screens that she famously used to decorate her apartment. Polge's light, modern take on Eau de Cologne, above, is the only part of the collection to be offered in a large...