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- Author: Emile Gaboriau
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1508936390
- ISBN-13: 9781508936398
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The Paris house of the Boiscoran family, No. 216 University Street, is a house of modest appearance. The yard in front is small; and the few square yards of damp soil in the rear hardly deserve the name of a garden. But appearances are deceptive. The inside is marvellously comfortable; careful and painstaking hands have made every provision for ease; and the rooms display that solid splendor for which our age has lost the taste. The vestibule contains a superb mosaic, brought home from Venice, in 1798, by one of the Boiscorans, who had degenerated, and followed the fortunes of Napoleon. The balusters of the great staircase are a masterpiece of iron work; and the wainscoting in the dining-room has no rival in Paris.
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- Author: Emile Gaboriau
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1508936390
- ISBN-13: 9781508936398
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The Paris house of the Boiscoran family, No. 216 University Street, is a house of modest appearance. The yard in front is small; and the few square yards of damp soil in the rear hardly deserve the name of a garden. But appearances are deceptive. The inside is marvellously comfortable; careful and painstaking hands have made every provision for ease; and the rooms display that solid splendor for which our age has lost the taste. The vestibule contains a superb mosaic, brought home from Venice, in 1798, by one of the Boiscorans, who had degenerated, and followed the fortunes of Napoleon. The balusters of the great staircase are a masterpiece of iron work; and the wainscoting in the dining-room has no rival in Paris.
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