Double-Fond

A burning love letter was forgotten 3 centuries ago into a secret drawer and found again today. Versailles, in the year of grace 1689. A gloved hand slips furtively a message into the mahogany double‐bottom Mazarin bureau. The love letter must leave for Paris on the same evening. Mysteriously left, nestled into the secret drawer, it will stay until. Today, in Paris, a hand explores the framework of the bureau bought the day before. By pressing fortuitously onto a worn wooden ratchet, the hand discovers the still sealed letter. Just like love at first sight. Three centuries of history have taken apart two improbable lovers.