Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure Product:Postcard Whittington's Library and the cloisters

Whittington's Library and the cloisters

This single prism spectroscope has a simple equatorial mount adaptor for a 5-inch telescope

Cliff Richard & The Shadows

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved

Four upright leather-bound volumes are visible on a desk behind

Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure Product:Postcard Whittington's Library and the cloistersAlexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure, 1900. Duval inheited a chain of cheap restaurants founded by his father, the Bouillons Duval, from which Alexandre got the nickname, the 'Prince de Bouillon'. He was known as a wit, a man of fashion, and a regular attendee at the most important theatrical premieres and social events. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1920, 6th album,