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...Tournelles came by some of his treasures is a question that the museum's curator, Mlle. Olga Popovitch, prefers not to investigate too closely. She does note that the feather-light iron choir grille displayed in one tiny chapel comes from the d'Ourscamp Abbey, on the banks of the Oise, which is still part of an operating monastery. The museum also contains iron jewelry (fashionable in Napoleon's day, when the British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Filigrees & Forgings | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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