2008-9-11 5:03am
When I first arrived in Paris, back in the early nineties, the consignment shop concept hadn’t quite taken off. In fact, it took some persistent questioning to discover the French translation for ‘consignment’ which is ‘depot-vente’. After some forehead wrinkling and shoulder-shrugging, a friend said, ‘AHHH! Perhaps you’re talking about [...]
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