MENU - 1927 Art Deco menu for author Gabriel Chevallier Period_1900 and laterMENU, 1927 An attractive watercolour and ink menu headed Diner Gaby Chevallier, tipped onto light card, featuring a background redolent of the jazz age, featuring a lighthouse, shelves of books, glasses, clocks, a hammer and sickle, musical stave, dartboard, washing line and the words chez vous chez vous. In all 35 x 25 cms, n. p., 29 August 1927. Gaby Chevallier most likely refers to the French novelist Gabriel Chevallier, who achieved fame a few
I deplore the loss of so many valiant soldiers
I will send the six English flags which we have taken by the first available officer
fight successfully against the Habsburgs in the Spanish Netherlands
8 February 1915
20 September 1801
The quotation may well have been written in an album
1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976)
Commander of the Infantry of the 5th Corps
and produced illustrations for Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris
Will you is only appropriate if a promise is to be extracted
Villeneuve is described as Captain of a ship
We sang a Te Deum at an improvised altar and fired the cannons
