chaise-percee

Updated: May 23, 2025

Every one has heard of the luxurious extravagance of Mademoiselle Deschamps, the cushion of whose chaise-percee, was trimmed with point-lace of very considerable value, and the harness of whose carriage was studded with paste, in imitation of diamonds. This woman, however, lived to repent of her folly; and if she did not literally die in a poorhouse, she at least ended her days in wretchedness.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is