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The Cartiers by Francesca Cartier Brickell.
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell.
This book is: a deep dive into the history of the Cartier family, written by one of their own.
Other elements: jewelry, Paris, Cartier, New York, famous jewels.
Read it: if you have any interest in Cartier at all.
The story starts with a young Francesca Cartier Brickell discovering a previously undiscovered trunk of family letters in the basement of her grandfather Jean-Jacques Cartier’s house in the South of France. This cache of correspondence serves as the bulk of the book’s primary sources, with Francesca’s memories and direct quotes from conversations with Jean-Jacque adding to the richness of the story.
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