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| Author: | ollownlda [ Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:50 am ] |
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Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin christian louboutin uk sale and Jimmy Choo are only a few of the famous contemporary shoe designers who owe much of their success to an early 19th century gentleman revered at the time for his style, manners and worldliness. Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, the Count d'Orsay was a nobleman and eclectic artist who married into the British aristocracy. He became a touchstone for manners, taste, understated luxury in the English royal court and high society. Count d'Orsay won fame throughout christian louboutin shoes outlet uk France, Britain and the Rhone Valley as an painter, sculptor, diarist and wit. He was considered the "most perfect gentleman of his day". Cynics spoke of men such as Beau Brummel and the Count as "dandies". The term "dossy, commonly in use during the first half of the 19th century, was considered to be derived from his name and meant a man who was an "arbiter elegantarium." |
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