We are talking about a time that people under 20 cannot know.
A time when spoiled people went to what they then called their “family jeweler”.
In Paris, and in the provinces, from mother to daughter and father to son, customers pushed the door of these shops to celebrate every happy moment in life, a birthday, a diploma, a professional success and a fortiori a wedding, a birth… Madame also left there to repair her ring which had lost a diamond and brought back to her taste the necklace inherited from her mother-in-law.
Parents chose a gold bangle for their daughter's 18th birthday (or a watch for their son).
This is also where young ladies had their ears pierced and bought their first pair of hoops,
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