As in all of eighteenth-century Europe, France was enthusiastic about the art of entertainment, the pomp of the court under the Ancien Régime.
Chinese cabinets with porcelain decorations have flourished everywhere, under the influence of exotic tales from distant embassies and imports from the French East India Company.
Until the Revolution, it will be the heyday of garden factories, pyrotechnic fire shows and indoor games.
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In this area, the family of the Dukes of Montmorency was at the forefront.
And their descendants have kept many memories.
In a river sale of 300 issues, on October 19 in Drouot (Coutau-Bégarie study), you have to go to lot 195 to discover the astonishing model of a Chinese pagoda built by Anne Léon de Montmorency-Fosseux and his wife. Charlotte-Françoise, on the edge of the park of their Parisian hotel (dating from 1703), which stretched from rue Saint-Marc to what is now boulevard Montmartre.
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