Marchand-mercier
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A marchand-mercier is a French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a corporation under rules codified in 1613.
Edme-François Gersaint's shop, in Antoine Watteau's L'Enseigne de Gersaint, in form a shop sign, though never used as such.
Château de Bellevue
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The Château de Bellevue was a small château built for Madame de Pompadour in 1750. It was constructed on a broad plateau in Meudon, above a slope overlooking the Seine to the east, but was demolished
The Château de Bellevue, in the time of Madame de Pompadour, from the courtyard to the west
The park surrounding the Château de Bellevue (west at the top)
The Château de Bellevue from the South. 18th drawing by Jacques André Portail.
La Toilette de Vénus (1751) by François Boucher (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)