Day 1,221: grandee

To widespread surprise, the grandees who met in Paris that year, at a climate conference like the one starting in Egypt next week, accepted his argument.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/03/the-world-is-missing-its-lofty-climate-targets-time-for-some-realism

Artwork of the day 
Portrait of Jaime Sabartes as Grandee
Pablo Picasso
Original Title: Portrait de Jaime Sabartes en grand d'Espagne
Date: 1939
Style: Surrealism
Period: Neoclassicist & Surrealist Period
Genre: portrait
Location: Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain

Word of the day 
grandee: an important person, especially in a particular job or area of public life

Quote of the day
“When he came he was greeted by his host with the proud courtesy of a Spanish grandee and by Mrs. Athelny in an altogether homely and natural fashion.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage