"Yellow onyx staircase inside The Hotel de la Paiva (""Mansion of La Paiva"") in Paris, France. Built between 1856 and 1866 at 25 Avenue des Champs-Elysees by the courtesan Esther Lachmann, better known as La Paiva. She had already acquired a luxurious mansion at 28 Place Saint-Georges in Paris, but dreamt of building another on the Champs-Elysees, which she thought the most beautiful avenue in the world. According to legend, in her youth she had been pushed out of a cab by a hurried customer…"
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