Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Mirror with a 1944 bullet hole in the Luxembourg Palace and the ruined Peterhof

A mirror in a gilded frame with a bullet hole and cracks, reflecting the moulded and painted interior of a palace.

In the Luxembourg Palace they lovingly preserve this mirror, struck by a bullet during the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. I should very much like to show them photographs of Peterhof razed to the ground, for example

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