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Updated: May 14, 2025
But he loved society, and made little use of his sanctuary except to give lessons in it. Although George Sand speaks only of a salon, Chopin's official residence, as we may call it, consisted of several rooms. They were elegantly furnished and always adorned with flowers for he loved le luxe and had the coquetterie des appartements.
But in truth the petits appartements are instinct with memories of Marie Antoinette, and it is difficult to think of any save only her occupying them.
"The Prince and Perdita have been in and out of that door, sir," he had often told me; "Marianne Clarke has entered it with the Duke of . It conducts to the famous petits appartements of Lord Steyne one, sir, fitted up all in ivory and white satin, another in ebony and black velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust's house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway a little private kitchen, in which every saucepan was silver and all the spits were gold.
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