Children playing, Beauvais tapestry, detail, after a drawing by Florentin Damoiselet, c. 1665-69, under Louis Himart, 1 of a series of 8 tapestries on children's games made for the Chateau de Versailles and sold at auction during the Revolution, on the first floor at the top of the staircase, in the Palais Brongniart, or Palais de la Bourse, built by Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart 1808-13 and Eloi Labarre 1813-26, on the Place de la Bourse in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The building housed the Bourse de Paris or Paris Stock Exchange from the late 19th century, and Euronext Paris from 2000, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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