pont

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Best known for large-scale works with his French partner Jeanne-Claude, like the wrapping of Paris's Arc de Triomphe in 2021, Berlin's Reichstag in 1995 and Pont Neuf in 1985, the Doha fair exhibited smaller wrapped sculptures.

From Barron's

For special occasions, notably birthdays, the restaurant gives the celebrant a padlock to place on a gate outside of the restaurant — a callback to the Pont des Arts in Paris, a bridge where visitors used to place “love locks.”

From Los Angeles Times

Pointing to a mansion next to the sea, she tells us, “That’s the du Pont estate. It’s filled with precious woods and marble. The mansion belonged to a very rich family before the revolution. I hope we can turn it into a school now.”

From Literature

In 1988 he flew to Delaware and volunteered on the presidential campaign of former Gov. Pete du Pont, who proposed unorthodox entitlement reforms.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s named for an electrical engineering alum who landed a job in 1909 selling explosives for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, and eventually worked his way up to treasurer.

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