18.00USD
Wonderful Belle Epoque image of Mlle. Champin in classic flowered, feathered and jeweled head decoration, photographed while she was booked at the Trianon in Paris. The Trianon still exists in Paris today. It was built, originally in 1894, at the Grand Garden of the Elysee-Montmarte, was called The Trianon Concert, then was destroyed by fire in 1900, rebuilt and then renamed a few times after that, being called, for a short time beginning in 1903, the Theatre Victor Hugo.
We can find no definite information on Mlle. Champin. Also elusive is the photographer, called Duguy by some of our French associates, Dulguy, by others, s/he does not seem to have been terribly prolific, but those images we've come across have been, for the most part, very fine. All in all, a lovely, unposted card with an undivided back and an overall appearance allowing us to date it at somewhere between 1895 and 1904.
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