Laffitte

On the outskirts of Beijing, in a castle-like mansion modeled after France's Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte, Messrs. Gates and Buffett listened through an interpreter to the moguls who, while sipping champagne, candidly expressed both the willingness and the reluctance they felt about giving their money away, said Messrs. Gates and Buffett.

Gates, Buffett Discuss Charity with China's Wealthy Laurie Burkitt 2010

The private dinner, in a mansion modeled after the baroque 17th century Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte in France, drew 50 business and philanthropy leaders for a 90-minute discussion, said a news release issued Wednesday.

Gates, Buffett Talk To China Wealthy About Charity AP 2010

LOUISA LIM: The billionaires 'banquet was held at Chateau Laffitte, a faux French castle in the Beijing suburbs.

Gates, Buffett Discuss Philanthropy With Chinese 2010

LOUISA LIM: The billionaires 'banquet was held at Chateau Laffitte, a faux French castle in the Beijing suburbs.

Gates, Buffett Discuss Philanthropy With Chinese 2010

The private dinner, in a mansion modeled after the baroque 17th century Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte in France, drew 50 business and philanthropy leaders for a 90-minute discussion, said a news release issued Wednesday.

Gates, Buffett Talk To China Wealthy About Charity AP 2010

LOUISA LIM: The billionaires 'banquet was held at Chateau Laffitte, a faux French castle in the Beijing suburbs.

Gates, Buffett Discuss Philanthropy With Chinese 2010

With the group's vocal harmonies and gift for chiming pop, it can bring to mind 1980s power pop and late-1960s California folk rock; on the opening track, Bill Fox's "Electrocution," the trio sounds a lot like the Byrds, as it does on Spoon's "The Agony of Laffitte."

Not Your Usual Cover Album 2010

There is a perpetual confusion of gourmandise properly speaking with gluttony and voracity: from which I conclude that the lexicographers, however worthy otherwise, are not among those amiable savants who nibble with grace a wing of partridge au suprême and then wash it down, pinky raised, with a glass of Laffitte or clos

Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout.

Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire' 2007

In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a million for the town and its poor.

Les Miserables 2008