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"Piqures d'Epingle" 



By Gardner Teall 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



HE days of the French restoration, so 

 minutely characterized in the pages of cer- 

 tain of Balzac's novels with a touch of inter- 

 est that no other writer has quite been able 

 to give to them, witnessed the advent of the 

 plutocracy of the Chaussee d'Antin, as the 

 strength of the Boulevard Saint-Germain diminished. The 

 descendants of the eighteenth century aristocracy still vener- 



ated the incomparable objets d' art which fickle Dame 

 Fortune had permitted to remain in their keeping while the 

 ''newcomers" paid less attention to collecting such objects than 

 imitating them and lavished their apparently endless, newly 

 acquired wealth in accumulating with astonishing rapidity 

 vast furnishments of manufactures contemporary with the 

 lonesome reign of Louis XVIII. Once peace became estab- 

 lished, all Paris entered with zest into the reception of all 



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Garden scenes pricked out with a needle-point were one of the favorite subjects of this forgotten art 



