Crossword-Solution: BIJOUX 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Further Examples of Depraved Appetites.--Bijoux speaks of a porter or garcon at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris who was a prodigious glutton.

Oui, cette petite bille qui roule contient en elle des hectares de bonne terre et des toits d'ardoise dont les cheminées sculptées se reflètent dans la Loire; elle renferme les trésors de l'art, les merveilles du goût, des bijoux prodigieux, les plus beaux corps du monde, des âmes, même, qu'on ne croyait pas vénales, toutes les décorations, tous les honneurs, toute la grâce et toute la puissance de la terre.

Years ago, while the German critics were resenting the spoliation of the masterpiece of their greatest poet by the French librettists, they fell upon this so-called Jewel Song ("Air des bijoux," the French call it), and condemned its brilliant and ingratiating waltz measures as being out of keeping with the character of Gretchen.

Alaric made a speech, in which he said he was quite unworthy of his present happiness, and Gertrude picked up all the bijoux, gold pencil-cases, and silver cream-jugs, which were thrown at her from all sides.

There were fountains of fairy workmanship, pictures from the old masters, statues from Italy, "_chefs-d'oeuvre_" of art; porcelain from China and Sčvres; damasks, cloth of gold, and bijoux from the East; Gobelin tapestry, tables of malachite and agate, and "knick- knacks" of every description.