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Les Jolies Eaux is a former royal residence on a headland on the 1,250-acre (510 ha) island of Mustique, St Vincent and the Grenadines. The villa is in a protected landscape, encompassed by the Caribbean seascape. The native French name means 'Beautiful Waters' and sits on 10 acres (4.0 ha), given as a wedding present to Princess Margaret in ...
Antônio Carlos Jobim. " Waters of March " (Portuguese: "Águas de março" [ˈaɡwɐʒ dʒi ˈmaʁsu]) is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994) in 1972. Jobim wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics. [1] The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that ...
The public is able to rent Les Jolies Eaux, the five-bedroom property that sits on the southernmost tip of the private Caribbean island and served as an escape for Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister.
Mustique / mʌˈstiːk / is a 2,470 hectares (6,100 acres) private island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is part of the Grenadines, a chain of islands in the West Indies. The island is located within Grenadines Parish, and the closest island is the uninhabited Petite Mustique, located 2 km (1.2 mi) to the south.
Messel was born in London, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Messel and Maud Messel, the only daughter of Linley Sambourne, the eminent illustrator and contributor to Punch magazine. He was educated at Hawtreys, a boarding preparatory school then in Kent, Westminster School and Eton – where his classmates included Harold Acton ...
Incroyables and merveilleuses. The Incroyables (French: [ɛ̃kʁwajabl], "incredibles") and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses (French: [mɛʁvɛjøz], "marvelous women"), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795–1799). Whether as catharsis or in a need to reconnect with other ...
The Lumières movement redefined the ideas of liberty, property and rationalism, which took on meanings that we still understand today, and introduced into political philosophy the idea of the free individual, liberty for all guaranteed by the State (and not the whim of the government) backed by a strong rule of law.
Jeux d'eau. (Ravel) Jeux d'eau (pronounced [ʒø do]) is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed in 1901 and given its first public performance the following year. The title is variously translated as "Fountains", "Playing Water" or literally "Water Games". At the time of writing Jeux d'eau, Ravel was a student of Gabriel Fauré, to ...