Statue of Venus with myrtle, 1896, by Victorien Bastet, 1852-1905, in the inner courtyard of the Hotel Pams, a mansion or hotel particulier, built 1852-72 by Pierre Bardou, founder of the Job cigarette paper company, and reworked in the 1890s by his son-in-law Jules Pams with the architect Leopold Carlier, on the Rue Emile-Zola in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The courtyard is lined on 2 sides by a portico with Ionic columns, and planted with a lush garden. The house is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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