Before Marie-Antoinette arrived at the guillotine斷頭台, she amassed累積 an opulent富裕的 collection of artwork and furniture. And today, in Paris to mark the anniversary of her execution執行 on the 16th October 1793, some of it goes under the hammer.
Of particular note:特別注意 a pair of green and pink silk絲綢 slippers拖鞋 which belonged to the queen. Not one of the shoes she dropped while climbing the scaffold鷹架 - that still resides駐留 in a French museum. But there is a framed cotton sleeve of a garment服裝 she wore in prison. And a fragment of a patterned silk dress she owned before her arrest.
There are portraits人像 and etchings銅版畫 of the king and queen, glassware玻璃器皿, candelabras燭台, dinner sets - and, among other historic artefacts文物, a fork and spoon from St Helena that belonged to Napoleon. All together they are the symbols of a decadent腐朽的 tyranny專制 but they still hold great fascination - and not just to the French.
Of particular note:特別注意 a pair of green and pink silk絲綢 slippers拖鞋 which belonged to the queen. Not one of the shoes she dropped while climbing the scaffold鷹架 - that still resides駐留 in a French museum. But there is a framed cotton sleeve of a garment服裝 she wore in prison. And a fragment of a patterned silk dress she owned before her arrest.
There are portraits人像 and etchings銅版畫 of the king and queen, glassware玻璃器皿, candelabras燭台, dinner sets - and, among other historic artefacts文物, a fork and spoon from St Helena that belonged to Napoleon. All together they are the symbols of a decadent腐朽的 tyranny專制 but they still hold great fascination - and not just to the French.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/10/121018_witn_marie_antoinette_auction.shtml
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