MENU: 2.1.3. Lords step out from the shadows
ANTIQUARIANS ON THE ROUTE TO VERSAILLES
Nobles settled in the west to reach the king more easily and their descendants live there still. That is the reason why the Faubourg Saint-Germain* is an antiquarians' haven where one can still encounter subtle grace that their families transmitted.
*"Faubourg," literally "false burg" or suburb, and "Saint-Germain," the area beyond the rampart that we have just passed through.
Adapted from a Mappy plan
Austerity that shunned parvenu ostentation hides the spirit of those times...
Splendid knockers highlight closed portals: Henry James describes the society they protect (The American, 1877).
This walk evokes their memories...
Embroidery, musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis, no date
How react to the transformation that comes with the Révolution when one has in this way shown one'd faith?
And perhaps comes upon the grace of the royal court, which some families transmitted and that one senses with certain antiquarians.
Follow the river and the arrows.
Take quai Voltaire to pont du Carrousel.
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