--Previous Message-- : I hope the Duchess did not sell that little : bijou. It will not have resulted in dazzling : €€€ and then a personal item is lost for : ever.
While I for one find your persistent stubbornness to use french vocabulary for jewellery items quite charming, I'm sometimes perplexed about your valuation of a particular piece: To my eyes this saphire looks quite substantial and the brooch is not exactly what I would describe as a "little bijou"