On 24 November Christie's will offer the baton of Marshal Alphonse Juin, made in 1952 by the house of Arthus-Bertrand, and with it a wildly charming trifle: a lipstick case belonging to the marshal's wife, Marie Gabrielle Cécile Bonnefoy, made in the form

On 24 November Christie's will offer the baton of Marshal Alphonse Juin, made in 1952 by the house of Arthus-Bertrand, and with it a wildly charming trifle: a lipstick case belonging to the marshal's wife, Marie Gabrielle Cécile Bonnefoy, made in the form of a marshal's baton by the house of Boucheron. And if we recall Napoleon's saying that every French soldier carries a marshal's baton of France in his knapsack, it would be right to add that every soldier's wife fits the very same baton into her handbag

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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On 24 November Christie's will offer the baton of Marshal Alphonse Juin, made in 1952 by the house of Arthus-Bertrand, and with it a wildly charming trifle: a lipstick case belonging to the marshal's wife, Marie Gabrielle Cécile Bonnefoy, made in the form

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

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