De Rougemont was a close friend of Saint-Exupéry, helping him create The Little Prince, and yet he seems to have collaborated in the writing of these 275 pages of character assassination.
While bombs did some damage, they did nothing compared with a disastrous postwar planner, Rowland Nicholas, who sought to demolish much of the city – even the town hall – to rebuild a socialist utopia.
Algeria left the forerunner of the EEC when it became independent in 1962; the 56,000 residents of Greenland departed in 1985; the French Caribbean colony of Saint Barthelemy (which, with nearly 10,000 inhabitants, has as roughly the same population as Glastonbury, in Somerset) formally exited the EU in 2012.
One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.
It requires the kind of "rat-like cunning" that Nicholas Tomalin reckoned was one of the three essential qualities for any good journalist.
He's done so by using the notation with which Beauty was recorded in 1903 by the ballet master Nicholas Sergeyev.
"I come here to protest against this football …" Frederick Nicholas Charrington never got to finish his address to a packed Craven Cottage, as the hullabaloo that followed his opening line led to him being escorted out of the ground.
The two women are part of a group of Central Saint Martins graduates, which also includes Giles Deacon and Katie Grand – who came to prominence in the early noughties with a playful, pop sensibility sense of style.
The church, home to an altar where the Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola celebrated his first mass in 1538, had played host to Francis when he was a mere cardinal and archbishop.
Given his views, was it not astonishing that he should have been given the job by a government described in Nicholas Shaxson's bombshell book Treasure Islands as now being "utterly captured by the financial services industry"?
In all the many interviews he has given recently, distracted by the need to engage with the substantive issue of why he is not currently the creative director of Yves Saint Laurent, Kanye West hasn't talked much about Yeezus.
