Legrand

KKR enjoyed some success, most notably its $575m investment in the French industrial conglomerate Legrand, which is now worth $1. 3bn.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

"Legrand," said I, "you must take Mademoiselle; she will not find her way alone, and I must have an arm free."

Hurricane Island 1892

Until the outlook about its own business becomes clearer, Schneider, trading at 11 times 2012 earnings, will find the discount to the 13-times multiples of rivals ABB and Legrand harder to budge.

Schneider Electric Loses Some Spark Matthew Curtin 2011

All to the strains of Mr. Legrand's now-classic "I Will Wait for You."

Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' John Anderson 2011

Verve Legendary film composer Michel Legrand arranges and conducts a lavish 50-piece orchestra and choir that swings and tugs heartstrings.

Under the Tree, but No Sap Marc Myers 2011

One is the way in which the fluid camera movement matched the seamless recitative of the Legrand score: take that away, and you are left with a show that, with the exception of I Will Wait for You, seems strangely lacking in musical or dramatic highlights.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011

When he told you to do something, if you didn't do it, you had no idea how much trouble you could get into. laughs It was "How Do You Keep The Music Playing," written by Michel Legrand, and Alan & Marilyn Bergman.

Mike Ragogna: 50 Years Of Grammys, Duets II, His Lady Gaga Portrait, Politics & More: A Conversation With Tony Bennett Mike Ragogna 2011

DVD FOCUS 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' (1964) Catherine Deneuve was 19 when she and Nina Castelnuovo were paired in Jacques Demy's deliriously romantic musical, in which the entire story is sung (to the music of Michel Legrand) and young love takes its not-atypical turn into the tragic.

Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' John Anderson 2011

When he told you to do something, if you didn't do it, you had no idea how much trouble you could get into. laughs It was "How Do You Keep The Music Playing," written by Michel Legrand, and Alan & Marilyn Bergman.

Mike Ragogna: 50 Years Of Grammys, Duets II, His Lady Gaga Portrait, Politics & More: A Conversation With Tony Bennett Mike Ragogna 2011

The Michel Legrand score still offers its fitful pleasures, and the bittersweet ending is retained; but it seems an oddly gratuitous translation of a highly successful film into theatrical terms.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011