It was strictly an assignment for an assistant curator. Workmen tearing down a tile factory in a Paris suburb had come upon some interesting old masonry embedded in the factory wall. Georges Poisson, assistant curator of the Ile de France Museum at Sceaux, traveled over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
Modern Frenchmen had forgotten all about the Petit Château but in Louis XV's...
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