Silk fabric with floral decoration and a satin ground. Palais Galliera, Museum of Fashion of the City of Paris. Gift of the Countess de Castries.
The dress is shown at the exhibition "Lost Illusions" as a typical wedding dress of the period, in which Balzacian women went to the altar.
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
