Sentence examples for mercure from inspiring English sources

The little marble "Mercure" (1741) of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is almost wholly Berninian, except in its intimacy and deliberate unpretentiousness; even in Pigalle's most ambitious undertakings, the relative scale of the figures is much reduced and the whole composition opened up, in contrast to Bernini's tombs.

Staying there Hotel Mercure Rouen Centre Cathedrale (00 33 2 35 52 69 52; mercure.com).com

Small wonder, then, that the Chinese spend more in the shop than any other group of foreign visitors do.Accor, a French hotel group, has adapted 56 hotels (the bulk are its mid-range Mercure and Novotel hotels) in Europe for Chinese tourists, offering noodles for breakfast, Chinese TV channels and Mandarin-speaking staff.

In a famous essay in the Mercure de France in 1891, the critic Albert Aurier declared Gauguin to be the leader of a group of Symbolist artists, and he defined his work as "ideational, symbolic, synthetic, subjective, and decorative".

Jarry was struck by Rousseau's unusual work and introduced the self-taught artist to the circle of intellectuals associated with the avant-garde review Le Mercure de France.

Returning to France in 1799, Fontanes helped edit the political and literary journal Mercure de France.

Many of those stories were first published individually in Mercure de France.

At the Hotel Mercure Bristol, I took an elevator down to the spa and sat in the dry sauna.

The café was in the Mercure Hotel, which is owned by the bin Laden family.

When we shot in unattractive locations, such as the corridor of the Mercure Hotel, we said that, instead of adding light to make it look prettier, it was better not to worry about it and work some other way….

Tammy Mercure (tammymercure.com) is a photographer living in Nashville, TN, who has travelled widely in the region.