Purs décors ? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIXe siècle. Egypte the island of Bourbon for

the island of Bourbon for the poet

whose four hundredth birthday is being celebrated this year in Europe and the United States

the systems by which he has sought to define its nature and the way in which it is perceived

for students as for lovers of the history of France and its regions

he gained an incomparable knowledge of the Greek language

Purs décors ? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIXe siècle. Egypte the island of Bourbon forThe Islamic art collections of the Decorative Arts present a virtually exhaustive panorama of the history of these arts, both geographically and chronologically, with some of the most remarkable collections in the world. Eminently revealing of the history of Western taste, they were gathered between 1878 and 1920 by a small group of amateurs, dealers and collectors. They had a decisive influence on contemporary decorative arts and on the first