1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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remnants of a harp in his raised hands. The third or central figure is supposed merely to have held a hawk upon his wrist; whilst the fourth seeks to extract h.armony from a .dilapidated bagpipe; and the fifth, with crossed legs, strums complacently

away upon the fiddle. The ground floor of the quaint old t enement is to-day an oil and colour shop, the front of which is covered with chequers in all the tints of the rainbow. Leading from the Rue du Tambour is the Rue de la Belle Image, thus named from a handsome statuette of the Virgin which formerly decorated a corner niche; and beyond is the Rue St. Hilaire, where Messrs. Bnrnett et .fils, trading under the'