GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jul. 25, 1938

In Paris, busy workmen completed last week a $1,000,000 decoration of the capital to honor Their Britannic Majesties on a visit of State this week. At the Quai d'Orsay, splendid apartments in the Palace which houses the French Foreign Office were ready for the royal guests, completely redecorated, furnished with the rarest French antique furniture from Fontainebleau and Versailles, hung with a collection of tapestries conservatively valued at $5,000,000. The bed in which the Emperor Napoleon slept and the desk at which he worked at Fontainebleau were ready for George VI, King...

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