Word: timbales
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Paris in the spring of 1870 Charles Timbal was a well known art critic and collector, Gustave Dreyfus was a well known banker. Critic Timbal had a collection of paintings, bronzes, sculpture, medals of the Italian High Renaissance of which he was inordinately fond. Banker Dreyfus had a great deal of money...
...Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...