PRE SAINT GERVAIS (93) - PAPIERS PEINTS XVIIIème / Relics of - Lot 54

PRE SAINT GERVAIS (93) - PAPIERS PEINTS XVIIIème / Relics of 2 fragments of wallpaper, whose former collector tells the story: on May 4, 1901, he bought them from the demolishers of a house at 90 rue Platrière in Le Pré Saint-Gervais, a house known as the "Belle Gabrielle" (Gabrielle d'Estrée, Henri IV's mistress), which is said to have sheltered their amorous passions - in fact, as a history buff, he wanted to stop the demolition of this heritage and alerted his friend Paul Delay, a journalist with L'Echo de Paris, who wrote him a letter (aut. signed. of 4 p), we learn that he had investigated and visited the site with a specialist, and in fact this house was at most Louis XIII, "moreover the ceiling paintings are by Dupuis who was born in 1608 while Gabrielle died in 1599", The journalist learned that the new owner was Count Foy (grandson of the General of the Empire) and that he had already sold the ceiling to an antique dealer - Our collector continued to investigate this house and enclosed a set of notes and documents, including the Dupuis ceiling buyer's card - The collector assumes that the 2 wallpaper fragments are from the Fabrique de Jean-Baptiste Révillon (1725-1811), the smaller of which has underneath a first layer of 18th-century print and a second of 17th-century manuscript fragments re-used to support the wallpaper