Blacas

Blacas was well known as a collector of porcelain, engraved gems, antique medals.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

He walked over the paving stones wrapped up like one of the dead—Blacas on one side, some duc on the other, with the guards flinging themselves at his big fat feet.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

He walked over the paving stones wrapped up like one of the dead—Blacas on one side, some duc on the other, with the guards flinging themselves at his big fat feet.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

He walked over the paving stones wrapped up like one of the dead—Blacas on one side, some duc on the other, with the guards flinging themselves at his big fat feet.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Blacas was well known as a collector of porcelain, engraved gems, antique medals.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

“They say I burnt them, but of course I read them first—those of the king that were strange and metaphysical and the atrocious letters of Blacas, full of unspeakable things, archives of lowness, lying, and villainy.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Blacas was well known as a collector of porcelain, engraved gems, antique medals.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

“They say I burnt them, but of course I read them first—those of the king that were strange and metaphysical and the atrocious letters of Blacas, full of unspeakable things, archives of lowness, lying, and villainy.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

“They say I burnt them, but of course I read them first—those of the king that were strange and metaphysical and the atrocious letters of Blacas, full of unspeakable things, archives of lowness, lying, and villainy.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Blacas, the Comte Pourtales, in France; and that of the Marquis

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life