Illustrated guide to the Cork international exhibition1883 - 80 Seiten |
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Seite 12 - Paris with an eager desire to enjoy it as soon as possible ; they anticipated with impatience the 18th Fructidor, the day fixed for public admission to St. Cloud. The courtyard was filled with elegant equipages, whose owners graced the saloons of the exposition, when, in the midst of this good company, I received an official notice from the Minister to attend him immediately, and to defer the opening of the exposition. I obeyed the mandate on the morning of the 18th. I waited on the Minister, from...
Seite 12 - I waited on the Minister, from whom I received an order to close the chateau. Already on the walls of our city was placarded the decree of the Directory for the expulsion of the nobility, with an order for their retirement within fourand-twenty hours to a distance of at least thirty leagues from Paris, and this under pain of death.
Seite 13 - I requested him to furnish me with a sufficient force for the protection of the chateau, in which so many precious objects were deposited. He gave me a company of dragoons, under command of Captain Vatier, and ordered a passport for me ; by means of which. I could leave Paris and return to St. Cloud. I caused an inventory to be made in my presence of all I left in the chateau. I closed the gates and delivered the keys to M. Marechau, the keeper, in compliance with the order of the Minister. I posted...
Seite 12 - Sevres china, enriched these saloons, already glowing with the chefs-d-oeuvre of Gobelins and the Savonnerie. The chamber of Mars was converted into a receptacle for porcelain, where might be seen the most beautiful services of every kind, vases for flowers — in short, all the tasteful varieties which are originated by this incomparable manufacture.
Seite 12 - ... porcelain, where might be seen the most beautiful services of every kind, vases for flowers — in short, all the tasteful varieties which are originated by this incomparable manufacture. In the centre of the saloon, surrounded by all these beauties, was a wheel of fortune, containing tickets for lotteries eventually to be drawn — every ticket was to obtain a prize of greater or less value : the price of each ticket was twelve francs. I had attained to this point when the Minister gave me an...
Seite 11 - France, and the Marquis has told the history of the affair so well that we may use his own words : — " In the year V. of the Republic (1797) I had not yet quitted the opera when the Minister of the Interior summoned me to undertake the office of Commissioner to the Manufactures of the Gobelins (tapestries), of Sevres (china), and of the Savonnerie (carpets). I had no need to stay long in these establishments to perceive the misery in which they were plunged. The workshops were deserted ; for two...
Seite 15 - London, for the exhibition of specimens of new and improved productions of the artisans and manufacturers of the United Kingdom.
Seite 11 - Francois de Neufchateau, who commanded me to carry it into effect by every means useful and suitable to the Government. '' The chateau of St. Cloud was then uninhabited and completely unfurnished, and this appeared to me the most appropriate and eligible spot for the Exposition which I had projected, and likely to invest the Exhibition with all the magnificence and eclat so necessary to attract strangers, and to further the sale of the objects exhibited, the produce of which might mitigate the sufferings...
Seite 12 - Government, and found all these gentlemen ready to further this object with zeal and activity. In a few days, by their obliging exertions, the walls of every apartment in the chateau were hung with the finest Gobelin tapestry ; the floors covered with the superb carpets of the Savonnerie, which long rivalled the carpets of Turkey, and latterly have far surpassed them ; the large and beautiful vases, the magnificent groups, and the exquisite pictures of Sevres china enriched these saloons, already...
Seite 11 - I depict the effect produced upon me by such a scene ; but at that moment a sudden and luminous thought presented itself to my imagination, and appeared to console me for the miseries of the present in the hopes it offered for the future. I pictured to myself in the most glowing colours, the idea of an exhibition of all the objects of industry of the national manufactures. I committed my project to paper, I detailed the mode of its execution, and prepared a report, addressed to the minister of the...