Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...
Every one of these Parisian features the Davises found in Saigon, true "Paris of the East." But all the way up the Saigon River everything was pure Indo-Chinese: junks, half-naked boatmen in big hats, smiling children who live the merry life of water rats...
Truex in a Parisian notions store, prevail upon him to double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked...
From Owen's collection comes a canvas by Jean Chardin, who was the leader of a school of Parisian still-life painters in the middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years...
Addendum: "As Mile Roberte de Neuflize she was well known as the only daughter and heiress of that great Parisian banker, the late Baron Jean de Neuflize, Regent of the Bank of France, and head of one of the most socially distinguished Protestant families in France...