Janet McTeer beat Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts to the best comedy actress globe for Tumbleweeds, a low-budget caper in which she plays a hippy, dippy Southern belle kept in line by her old-before-her-time daughter.
The 14 rooms, seven of which have panoramic seaviews, have been decorated with giant blow-ups of vintage seaside postcards from the belle époque, while the ground floor combines a seafood restaurant, comfy lounge with vast leather armchairs and sofas, and a long wooden bar that is a popular haunt of St-Valéry locals.
Nearby Trouville-sur-Mer, across the Touques river, has sandy beaches and belle époque architecture, and Honfleur, a 30-minute drive east, is an attractive fishing port depicted by several impressionist painters, some of whose works are in the Eugène Boudin museum, in a former 19th-century chapel.
That's what makes me believe there is a belle philosophie at the club.' What of the rumours suggesting Cantona is preparing to return to the club in some sort of coaching capacity?
She captures daily life against the classic backdrop of the belle ville, with its beautiful architecture and monuments, as well as its more typical street scenes.
Il est just un troisième rate politician qui toujours faire qu'il wants et is turning la belle France aux chiens". Et maintenant, while tout le monde connaît quel miserable fuckwit François est avec des grands problèmes de commitment phobia who has been dumpered par Julie, je suis rebuilding ma vie.
And his cabinet, though not yet entirely dysfunctional, hardly abounds with sympathetic faces.Just a few weeks ago, Mr Blair was the belle of the anti-terrorism ball, the European leader so close to Mr Bush that the other presidents and prime ministers of Europe beat a path to Downing Street to be briefed on what America was really thinking.
FEW companies are as rooted in France as LVMH, a luxury-goods group, with its vintages harvested from the terroir of Champagne, its dresses embroidered by Parisian seamstresses and its suitcases designed in the belle époque.
Ambassadors, bishops, celebrities and politicians were all out in force.Yet the belle of the ball was Elena Kadare, who won an award for best writer of the year.
Cinderella's transformation from kitchen grunt to belle is both delightful and disruptive.
Tiresias, for example, undergoes a sex change, and later becomes insanely jealous of Mrs Tiresias's new belle.
