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The antique sessions, which today are called the Biennale of Antiquaries, were founded in 1962 by the Minister of Culture in the government of de Gaulle by the writer and philosopher Andre Malraux.

Despite the fact that the center participants in the sessions were, of course, first-class antiquarians, jewelers (and especially elegant French origin) joined the Paris exhibition of antiquities almost immediately – in 1964. But they didn’t exhibit then new collections, namely branded antique jewelery (in this case, the once famous expositions of the French house Chaumet, which began to exhibit its historical jewelry items one of the first, would be a good example). Continue reading →