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I like the simplicity of the

EmmaZahn — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:44:48 +0000

I like the simplicity of the small room especially the masonry heater but not the antlers over the door. Why do people like to hang parts of dead animals on their walls?

I like those interiors as

artappraiser — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:52:20 +0000

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I like those interiors as well. But as for personal druthers, Biedermeier is almost always better, like buttah. Just a bourgeois at heart, that's me.

retort - not so fast. First,

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:26:48 +0000

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retort - not so fast. First, N3 was NOT a bombastic babbling idiot. This portrayal of him is a third-republic retelling largely unconnected to the truth. N3 gave bonapartism consistent, if not genial, intellectual foundations; he understood modern economics & was conscious of the changes brought abt..
— Gabriel Barrès (@BarresGabriel) July 26, 2020

Interesting new-to-me

EmmaZahn — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 02:40:55 +0000

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Interesting new-to-me parallels with Napoleon III. Before I only noticed a shared taste for Second Empire interiors. :D

I saw that! Liked it too.

artappraiser — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:56:11 +0000

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I saw that! Liked it too.