Indignation boiled in every line of a public statement issued by the State Manufactory of Sevres, renowned porcelain.
The citizens of France were reminded that the State presents a superb set of Sevres china to every foreign Legation and Embassy in Paris. Furthermore, when a piece from one of these "diplomatic sets" breaks, the fragments are exchangeable without charge for a new and costly Sevres platter, plate, vase.
With righteous indignation the State Sevres Bureau informed the citizens that for some years past shrewd diplomats have been working a "double exchange" and swindling the...
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