The Palate of Decadence
Laurent Beaumont opened Le Palais des Sens on a rain-slicked evening in November 1891, in the basement of a hotel on the Rue de la Paix that overlooked the Opera and the glittering boulevards that Paris had built on the bones of something older and darker and much more interesting. There was no menu. There was no sign. Guests were admitted only by invitation from the Comtesse de Montclair's...
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