A bonheur du jour (in French, bonheur-du-jour, meaning `daytime delight`) is a type of lady`s writing desk. It was introduced in Paris by one of the interior decorators and purveyors of fashionable novelties called marchands-merciers about 1760, and speedily became intensely fashionable. The bonheur du jour is always very light and graceful, wi......
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small, dainty writing table, introduced in the 1760s, which became one of the most popular varieties of French 18th-century furniture. A block of ...
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a delicate fall-front desk of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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