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  • It was Coco Chanel, after all, who changed the course of women's fashion in the 1920s when she raided her lover, É tienne Balsan's closet and donned blazers and tweed waistcoats.

    Menswear Suits the Ladies, Too 2010

  • In the 1920s, Coco Chanel changed the course of women's fashion forever when she abandoned her frilly corsets and petticoats and raided her lover, É tienne Balsan's oh-so-English closet.

    Damsels in His Dress Josh Patner 2010

  • Back in 2002, her sustainable design thesis at Philadelphia University was internationally awarded the First Place Professional Winner of the International Design Resource Awards and winner of the Saint à ‰ tienne International Design Biennial award for eco design.

    Lea Bogdan | Inhabitat 2010

  • The 38-year-old Mr. Comolli, who previously held similar roles at St. É tienne and Tottenham Hotspur, is something of a soccer wonk who began his career as a 24-year-old European scout for Arsenal.

    Diving Into the Market Pool Gabrielle Marcotti 2010

  • On one side were the two quasi- abolitionist commissioners of the island, L é ger-F é licit é Sonthonax and É tienne Polverel — who had set out from Paris to prepare the colony for war with Britain and Spain — and the substantial community of freed slaves and mixed-race people to whom they appealed for help.

    When Hope Flourished in Haiti Brendan Simms 2010

  • The 38-year-old Mr. Comolli, who previously held similar roles at St. É tienne and Tottenham Hotspur, is something of a soccer wonk who began his career as a 24-year-old European scout for Arsenal.

    Diving Into The Market Pool gabriele marcotti 2010

  • I learned to love these wines after the demise of my screenwriting career and in fact they can attain similar heights, occasionally even surpassing the grand crus in the hands of great producers like tienne Sauzet and Domaine Leflaive, the ne plu

    The Grace Kelly of Wines 2010

  • Je ne suis pas certaine que la naïveté de ta petite grenouille soit si grande, la tienne peut-être?

    moon 2008

  • The U.S. anti-ballistic landscape as a subset of Land Art. One of his companions, a blogger of the built environment, will later report these inebriated musings, speculating further that those anonymous soldier-bureaucrat-architects must have been great admirers of the unbuilt works of Étienne-Louis Boullée.

    Boullée in North Dakota 2008

  • Si tu vois la barbe de ton voisin brûler, tu peux mettre la tienne à tremper.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

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