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3328850"Well always have Paris." A story of wealth, obsessions, and the emperors ransom collected and dispersed by Christopher Forbes, connoisseur.https://www.gandhi.com.mx/-well-always-have-paris---a-story-of-wealth-obsessions-and-the-emperors-ransom-collected-and-dispersed-by-christopher-forbes-connoisseur--9781540172143/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2369634/4188b749-c6d6-4a33-9423-e19c7d3ad99e.jpg?v=6383838825495300009696MXNJeffrey LantInStock/Ebooks/3265158"Well always have Paris." A story of wealth, obsessions, and the emperors ransom collected and dispersed by Christopher Forbes, connoisseur.9696https://www.gandhi.com.mx/-well-always-have-paris---a-story-of-wealth-obsessions-and-the-emperors-ransom-collected-and-dispersed-by-christopher-forbes-connoisseur--9781540172143/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2369634/4188b749-c6d6-4a33-9423-e19c7d3ad99e.jpg?v=638383882549530000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781540172143_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_<p>Do you remember the first auction you ever attended<br />and what happened that memorable day? I do.<br />The day the worldly effects of my paternal grandmother<br />were being auctioned.</p><p>I might have had as much as 10 to conjure with. However with so<br />many items selling for two bits it was adequate. Adequate.</p><p>Thats pretty much how I described my available funds, never<br />excessive, never hopeless either. If Id had more, I may have been<br />careless; while less might have killed my ambition and motivation.<br />But adequate was just right.</p><p>I purchased a walnut table, still proud when polished, is in my bedroom where the<br />flair is Empire. But I just cannot dispose of it. It would be like<br />smothering an old and dear friend.</p><p>Storage, an act of love.</p><p>When I left for Harvard, he packed my youthful purchases, along with so<br />many items I just couldnt give to Good Will. And so for over 30 years the<br />items slept, until just the other day when I opened the boxes and snuffled<br />just a little, the contents of each meticulously noted in his perfect copper<br />plate hand.</p><p>Do you believe in love at first sight? I do... every connoisseur does... and very much to the point of our story Kip Forbes does. Consider...</p><p>He was just 16, and en route to adventure in his fathers latest yacht,<br />Highlander III. St Tropez and la dolce far niente were the objective...<br />It was a Jerry Mungo moment, In the summer time when the weathers<br />high.... (1970) Love was in the air, or if not love at least an acute<br />indiscretion and memories for a lifetime.</p><p>Kismet.</p><p>He entered a small antiques shop the way we all do, with the possibility that there would be a certain something you would know at once. Jane Morgan set this feeling<br />to music It was fascination I know, and it may have ended there at the<br />start., just a passing glance, just a brief romance, and I might have gone<br />on my way empty hearted... and so Kip experienced the gnawing feeling<br />of desire, of an object so tempting him, he had to save it, and to get it had<br />to persuade his father what a good investment the picture of Napoleon III<br />would be.</p><p>Connoisseurs are prone to use such arguments, saying whatever<br />needs to be said to acquire the object in question. What does strict truth<br />and precise morality have to do with beauty, history, and the thrill of<br />possession? And so Jean-Hippolyte Flandins imperial portrait came<br />to live chez Forbes for a half century, sold just the other day at the<br />Fontainebleau sale.</p><p>That picture seized the boys imagination far more than the usual<br />aspects of St. Tropez and launched a quest that, in the final analysis,<br />revived the Emperors reputation and that of la belle France.. Where<br />there had been a black hole in the center of French history, Kip Forbes<br />did what was necessary to revive and resurrect. When he shouted Vive<br />la France he meant it, and he had done everything to make it happen.</p><p>Now its time to take the voyage and see the treasures built up for over<br />fifty years, now dispersed.</p>(*_*)9781540172143_<p>Do you remember the first auction you ever attended<br />and what happened that memorable day? I do.<br />The day the worldly effects of my paternal grandmother<br />were being auctioned.</p><p>I might have had as much as 10 to conjure with. However with so<br />many items selling for two bits it was adequate. Adequate.</p><p>Thats pretty much how I described my available funds, never<br />excessive, never hopeless either. If Id had more, I may have been<br />careless; while less might have killed my ambition and motivation.<br />But "adequate" was just right.</p><p>I purchased a walnut table, still proud when polished, is in my bedroom where the<br />flair is Empire. But I just cannot dispose of it. It would be like<br />smothering an old and dear friend.</p><p>Storage, an act of love.</p><p>When I left for Harvard, he packed my youthful purchases, along with so<br />many items I just couldnt give to Good Will. And so for over 30 years the<br />items slept, until just the other day when I opened the boxes and snuffled<br />just a little, the contents of each meticulously noted in his perfect copper<br />plate hand.</p><p>Do you believe in love at first sight? I do... every connoisseur does... and very much to the point of our story Kip Forbes does. Consider...</p><p>He was just 16, and en route to adventure in his fathers latest yacht,<br />"Highlander III". St Tropez and la dolce far niente were the objective...<br />It was a Jerry Mungo moment, "In the summer time when the weathers<br />high...." (1970) Love was in the air, or if not love at least an acute<br />indiscretion and memories for a lifetime.</p><p>Kismet.</p><p>He entered a small antiques shop the way we all do, with the possibility that there would be a certain something you would know at once. Jane Morgan set this feeling<br />to music "It was fascination I know, and it may have ended there at the<br />start., just a passing glance, just a brief romance, and I might have gone<br />on my way empty hearted..." and so Kip experienced the gnawing feeling<br />of desire, of an object so tempting him, he had to save it, and to get it had<br />to persuade his father what a good investment the picture of Napoleon III<br />would be.</p><p>Connoisseurs are prone to use such arguments, saying whatever<br />needs to be said to acquire the object in question. What does strict truth<br />and precise morality have to do with beauty, history, and the thrill of<br />possession? And so Jean-Hippolyte Flandins imperial portrait came<br />to live chez Forbes for a half century, sold just the other day at the<br />Fontainebleau sale.</p><p>That picture seized the boys imagination far more than the usual<br />aspects of St. Tropez and launched a quest that, in the final analysis,<br />revived the Emperors reputation and that of la belle France.. Where<br />there had been a black hole in the center of French history, Kip Forbes<br />did what was necessary to revive and resurrect. When he shouted "Vive<br />la France" he meant it, and he had done everything to make it happen.</p><p>Now its time to take the voyage and see the treasures built up for over<br />fifty years, now dispersed.</p>...9781540172143_Jeffrey Lantlibro_electonico_64f79dd5-9cd4-331e-bb12-fd94c360b626_9781540172143;9781540172143_9781540172143Jeffrey LantInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/draft2digital_ipp-epub-c5276491-669b-4ea1-b1ba-601d2f0b1e08.epub2016-11-20T00:00:00+00:00Jeffrey Lant