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Show APPOM.O'S ; GALLERY OP THE LOtiVUE. Editors lleraU: This magnificent gallery of the most splendid palace of Paris was shut up in August, JS70, at the coming of the Prussian armies. After a period of sixteen months, it has been opened again to the public. That beautiful gallery displays avast amount of rich, artistic decorations of the style of Louis the XtV. The ceiling, ceil-ing, the golden bending of its vault, its wainscot ts, its tapestry, portraits, Lo-brun's, Lo-brun's, Taravel's and .Delacroix's paint-iugs, paint-iugs, are well known. In this immense and wonderfully lighted gallery stands the rich sculptured sculp-tured and gilt tables, the glazed cases, the tablets containing the crown jewels; a collection of old enamel and Limoges-enamel, Limoges-enamel, works of the moat celebrated artists; the cups and rcek-crystal wares, agates, lapis-azuh, antique red stones, A:e., the .Renaissance artistic jewels, the snuff-boxes donated by Dnblin, a thousand wonders which b:long to Sauvageot jewelry wares collection, in short an unique collection worth fifty millions of francs. To these old treasures of that gallery, the manager has added, in the space between the doors and the windows, twenty-eight Boule's inlaid-work pieces of furniture, which have been saved from Saint Cloud, Trianon castles, Fontainebleau, Compiegnc, ice. They are surmounted by China and antique porphyry vases of an inestimable value. After two sieges and numberless social calamities, the twenty-five museums, located iu that palace, are still complete com-plete and intact. In His mercy, God has efficaciously protected the Louvre, so dear to tho Parisians, and the pride of France, a place of the world where human genius seems to have located all its treasures, all its wonders. Respectfully yours, Louis A. Bertuand. |
