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  • A very pretty decoration is obtained by using flowers of one color, such as Jacqueminot roses, or scarlet carnations, which, if placed in the gleaming crystal glass, produce a very brilliant and beautiful effect.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Returning to Paris a year later, he met with rejection until, in 1904, after a flamboyant demonstration, Coty got an order for twelve bottles of his latest creation, La Rose Jacqueminot, from the Grands Magasins du Louvres, a major Parisian department store.

    The Chemistry of Beauty | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • The honeyed, dark-red roses of La Rose Jacqueminot 1904 made me understand like never before why, after Coty intentionally broke the bottle of this fragrance in Grands Magasins du Louvre, the world has gone crazy about his perfumes.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • "The delicate loveliness of blonde women is told by L'Or, L'Effleurt or La Rose Jacqueminot"...

    Archive 2007-04-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • One Thursday afternoon, when neither Aileen nor he could attend the Sohlberg tea, Mrs. Sohlberg received a magnificent bunch of Jacqueminot roses.

    The Titan 2004

  • We fear that no prima donna looks at her flowers without a thought of how much they have cost, and that the belle estimates her bouquet according to the commercial value of a lily - of-the-valley as compared with that of a Jacqueminot rose, rather than as flowers simply.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • The first who reached the opposite bank were the brave Jacqueminot, aide-de-camp of Marshal

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Guard, and to such an extent that of the sixty thousand one-half would obey his orders with greater alacrity than those of Jacqueminot himself.

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

  • Jacqueminot and Papagontier and La France roses, white roses, and yellow roses, -- Susan felt as if she could intoxicate herself upon the sweetness and the beauty of them all.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • May, they told him, was in the dining-room inspecting the mound of Jacqueminot roses and maidenhair in the centre of the long table, and the placing of the Maillard bonbons in openwork silver baskets between the candelabra.

    XXXIII. Book II 1920

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