What was once Le Louis XV, where the chef earned his first three Michelin stars, is now operating with a new name, look and menu.
Earlier this month, the art dealer Larry Gagosian opened a gallery for large-scale art in a 17,760-square-foot industrial warehouse built in the 1950s on the grounds of what was once Le Bourget airport.
Then Les Trente Glorieuses, as the French call the 30 years of postwar prosperity from 1945 to 1975, suburbanized the Ile de France, and many of the surviving small farmers put their hoes down for good once Les Halles moved to Rungis in 1969 and Paris's main market became a high-volume wholesale affair.
Saints, captained and inspired by Welsh rugby union convert Kel Coslett, made a flying start to the game with Graham Rees's try inside 35 seconds and, once Les Jones had also crossed, had opened up a 12-6 leat at half-time.
Mr Arnault, France's richest man, has said that once the Les Echos sale goes through he will seek to sell his other financial daily, La Tribune.
That's my strength," he once told Le Monde.
(His own library of Joyceana, he once told Le Monde, "is less than a metre wide").
For once, as Le Figaro remarked yesterday, it really will be the end of an era.
The late Helmut Newton once stated: "Le Smoking... [is] exactly the way I wished my ideal woman was dressed.
The Socialists, some of whom previously championed the global license, backed away from it once Ms. Le Pen took it up.
The French striker has been restrained in his complaints since leaving Bolton Wanderers for £15m in January but the man once dubbed "Le Sulk" reverted to type yesterday.
