Friday, November 24, 2023

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST


"MEN WHO VALUE ENGRAVINGS APPRECIATE MY VESTS," SAID THE OWNER OF A SHOP THAT UNTIL 2024 PERFECTLY FIT THE 18TH-CENTURY SETTING

La Galerie d'argent 
42 galerie Montpensier



      





Danou Jacquard, descendent of the founder of Jaquard looms, and creator of a shop that until 2025 perfectly represented classic France. 

It is now an office.

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Leave the gardens by their farther end
and stroll toward this royal "place:"*

*Italics because this kind of void is specific to France and harks back to royalty, as explained here.

Place des Victoires

You will remain in an (almost) preserved oasis.

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