La Pausa La Pausa La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, and owned by Chanel until 1953. La Pausa was sold by Chanel to the Hungarian publisher Emery Reves. The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent roughly a third of each year at La Pausa from 1956 to 1958 with Reves and his wife, Wendy, and wrote and edited part of his "History of the English Speaking Peoples" there. La Pausa was occupied by Wendy Reves until
Kra–Dai-speaking peoples Kra–Dai-speaking peoples The Kra–Dai-speaking peoples refer collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to Northeast India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand and parts of Vietnam, which speak languages in the Kra–Dai language family and share some similar traditions. There are five established branches of the Kra–Dai languages, which may not correspond to ethnicity: The Lakkia people of Guangxi Autonomous Region of China ("Tai Lakka" in neighboring portions of Vietnam) are ethnically of Yao, but speak a Kra–Dai language called "Lakkia". These Yao were likely in an area dominated by Tai speakers