'It was old Japan,' she said, 'it came to me from my great-aunt the Abbess of Chelles; it was a present from the Dutch to the Duke of Orleans when he was Regent and he gave it to his daughter ...'
C’était du vieux japon, disait-elle, il me venait de ma grand’tante abbesse de Chelles ; c’était un présent des Hollandais au duc d’Orléans régent qui l’avait donné à sa fille…