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Second, Faludi's interviews with an unusual selection of men are masterful gems, each one cut and shaped by profound empathy, vivid observation, and keen listening.
With its triumverate of Moorish, Reconquista, and Renaissance roots clearly visible, Tavira, one of the true gems of the Algarve, is one of the region’s most historically rich cities.
Within the space of a year came the successful New York run (last winter) of Pam Gems' intense biographical play Stanley , the American publication of Kenneth Pople's comprehensive biography, and an admiring profile by Simon Schama in The New Yorker . The recent attention showered on Spencer's flesh-obsessed successors, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (a movie about the latter is due out this winter), makes Spencer seem more mainstream.
It is attested in Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin religious and magical texts preserved on clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, gems, and strips of metal thousands of years old.
Up on the first floor is the Musée de l’Histoire de France, with gems such as the only known portrait of Joan of Arc painted in her lifetime and the diary kept by Louis XVI.