Entertainment & Arts
Introducing Hollywood’s next would-be movie mogul: The King of Concrete.
Oct. 30, 1991
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France’s luxury-goods tycoons are among the country’s wealthiest individuals and companies to pledge at least 600 million euros ($678 million) to help in the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral a day after the Paris landmark was ravaged by fire.
April 16, 2019
Business
The $15,000,000,000,000,000 phone bill
Oct. 12, 2012
World & Nation
The bittersweet scent of raw cocoa awaiting shipment overseas still permeates the huge lagoon-side port district here, a reminder that this is the commodity that created Africa’s most stunning economic success story.
Nov. 6, 1990
Actor Alain Delon, the heartthrob and screen tough guy who has dominated French film for more than three decades, sold 32 paintings at a Paris auction Sunday for a total of $7 million.
Nov. 26, 1990
The heirs of three of France’s best-known 20th-Century authors and 55 other writers threatened today to switch publishers if a corporate raider succeeded in gaining control of the Gallimard publishing house.
April 3, 1990
Japanese investors are expected to buy a large stake in France’s Forum des Halles shopping center, a thriving new complex that is as much a part of the Paris cityscape as the Japanese-owned Rockefeller Center is to New York’s skyline.
Nov. 24, 1989
Sports Now
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July 8, 2010
In Paris, where beautiful buildings have to fight for attention, an architectural star will be born this week when leaders of the world’s seven richest nations inaugurate the great arch at La Defense.
July 11, 1989
Awards
A helicopter crash in Argentina has killed 10 people, including three French athletes, during filming of the reality television show “Dropped.”
March 10, 2015