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June 27, 2007

Chartres, the Beautiful City

We spent today around the beautiful city of Chartres, famous for its Gothic cathedral with its breathtaking stained glass windows. Here are our favorite finds today:

A one hundred year old camera made of walnut and brass with the original brass label of the camera maker in Paris.

A hand carved oak Provençal pétrin full of symbolic carvings for the family who owned it.

A Louis XIV style walnut...

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June 26, 2007

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We are back in France and this time for five weeks of shopping! Okay, we can’t shop every waking moment while we are here, but we can try! After a day and a half of getting settled and over the jet lag, our first day on the hunt was quite successful.