ANTIQUITY!

There are many foreigners in Paris and they make many purchases there. The antiques dealers who know that these are amateurs if not connoisseurs exhibit their most sensational... nightingales for them in their storefronts.

But would we find. in one of these storefronts, something as extraordinary as what was seen, in 1880, in an antiques store on rue des Pelites-Ecuries. Jules Claretie?

It was a flap of skin covered with scales with this explanatory note: “Fragment of the skin of the serpent which tempted our mother Eve in the earthly paradise. The reptile was killed by Adam with a spear, the trace of which can be seen." Guaranteed by the seals of numerous scholars and theologians.

Which New York or Chicago collection is this snakeskin in?