Parisian Taste for Crime
- ♦ The sale of the effects of Marie Beg* nault, the murdered mistress of Pranzmi, at the Hotel Drouet, Paris in March last, drew together such a crowd that numbers of women, some of them " Indies" of fashion, were almost suffocated in the pressure, and many swooned, The furniture was of the most commonplace character, but there were criminal and impure associations connected with it. and that was enough. The taste for crime, the curiosity of vice, will attract hundreds to that famous saleroom who will not come near it when the pictures of some deceased artist of genius are brought to the hammer there.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 131, 5 June 1888, Page 3
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