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The Floral King. 103
an elegant time-piece, to which is attached the
following details which a Swedish lady, some time
ago, and for many years resident in Paris, gave,
relative to this royal heir-loom to Professor H.
Sitherberg, of Stockholm, who has published a
charming poem in twenty-five songs on the
subject of the ‘ Floral King.”
“You ask me about the time-piece?. With my own
eyes I have seen it in the palace of the Tuilleries,
both in the time of Louis Philippe, and during the
Imperial reign. It stood in a little corner-room
with one window looking into the courtyard and
one on the quay, in the corner of the room, between
the two windows. It was a small gilded timepiece
in antique style. Below the face itself was a
miniature picture, if I recollect aright, painted on
porcelain. I cannot say if it were made at Sévres,
but it was exceedingly dainty and remarkably pretty.
The little picture was not more than about six
inches wide and still less in height. It represented
a saloon, where in a semi-circle many ladies and
gentlemen were seated in elegant costumes (court
dresses of course) and in the centre stood Linnzus,
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