A Lady in Waiting

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Excerpt from A Lady in Waiting: Being Extracts From the Diary of Julie De Chesnil, Sometime Lady in Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Marie Antoinette

But what is Du Laurier doing at the hotel Drouot on such a day? His studio is one of the most artis tically arranged in all Paris. Scarcely had public attention been drawn to his picture before people were whispering in the salons about the rare cabinets and exquisite tapestries that adorned his studio while its arrangement was declared to be marvelous. And it was on just such days as this, that Paul du Laurier secured his rarest bits. The banker Croesus and the gra/nde dame Connoisseur rarely venture out on such a day; besides, this was only a little sale, for only one article of any artistic value is to be sold, and that is a Louis Seize cabinet, an exquisite one, which has found its way from some provincial chd team.

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