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...VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII, T 3 Wed., Jan. 22 XVIII...
...succeeding days, prices for French furniture, porcelain and bric-a-brac kept up the same furious pace. Items: a Louis XV Sevres porcelain soupiere, sold for $3,000 in 1941, was bid in at $29,000; carved and gilded Louis XVI armchairs went for $2,500 each; marble-topped, gilded and painted Louis XV commodes for $14,000. Prize bid of the whole sale was for Renoir's sunny landscape La Serre, expected to bring between $120,000 and $140,000, which went to Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused...
...VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII, T 3 Wed., Jan. 22 XVIII...
...born in Vienna in 1755, daughter of the great Empress Maria Theresa. She first skips into history as a little girl "playing at marriage" in the Schönbrunn Palace galleries with a little boy prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was only 14 when her mother and Louis XV sealed their Franco-Austrian alliance by giving her in marriage to the French Dauphin. "Has she any bosom?" asked the aging wolf Louis XV of the emissary who helped arrange the marriage. "Sire, I did not take the liberty of carrying my eyes so far," replied the courtier...
...Young to Reign. Four years later, when Louis XV died and the young pair ascended the throne ("We are too young to reign," they sobbed when told of the King's death), the new Louis XVI was still hoping to consummate his marriage and father an heir. In Marie Antoinette he had found a tender, sympathetic wife who, though apparently never in love with him, did all she could to aid his efforts and alleviate his shame. Already half mother, half schoolteacher, adolescent Marie Antoinette began slowly to civilize her royal booby. And when at last a minor surgical...