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...always had it in my soul," Rene Fribourg once said, "to love French 18th century things. It is true that my bedroom is Napoleon I, and my wife's bedroom is Charles X, but most of the rest is 18th century. I love Louis XV and Louis XVI." Until his death at 83 in January, only guests to the white stone Fribourg mansion off upper Fifth Avenue ever saw his big collection of furniture, art objects and painting; now it is to be knocked down at auction. Peter Wilson, suave chairman of the world's biggest auction house...
...cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...
...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
...VIII MWF at 3 Sat., Jan. 19 IX MWF at 4 Sat., Jan. 19 X TTS at 8 Tues., Jan. 22 XI TTS at 9 Mon., Jan. 28 XII TTS at 10 Fri., Jan. 25 XIII TTS at 11 Wed., Jan. 23 XIV TTS at 12 Sat., Jan. 26 XV TTS at 1 Tues., Jan. 22 XVI TTS at 2 Tues., Jan. 22 XVII TTS at 3 Tues., Jan. 29 XVIII TTS at 4 Tues...
What the Rothschilds are to banking, the Carders have been to jewelry. Descended from a metal craftsman who worked for Louis XV, the Carder family opened its first jewelry store in Paris in 1847, by the early years of this century had prospered sufficiently to set younger sons up in business in London and New York. Cartier's of Manhattan, which has been corporately independent of its Paris and London cousins since 1919, is more conservative than Tiffany's and more luxurious than Van Cleef & Arpels. Equally famed for custom-crafted goods at extravagantly high prices...