章節 35: Chapter 35 Under Amsterdam

In the middle of the Champs-Elysees, this location is 600 meters from the Tuileries Palace, looking south at the Louvre.

Before Joseph stood a jewelry store spanning some twenty meters wide, but at the moment its doors were half-closed, with the sign of Nagel Jewelry Store still hanging.

According to what Eman had learned, the owner of this store had married a Spaniard and thus planned to sell the property to move to Spain.

Joseph entered the store to look around, finding it quite new with two floors, each roughly over five hundred square meters, solid oak flooring, and all the corners of the room and banisters of the stairs wrapped in brass—its decor was very particular, exuding a kind of restrained and exquisite beauty.

He didn't dawdle, quickly reaching an agreement with the store owner's agent and bought the shop for 36,000 livres.

For the busiest commercial district in Paris, this price was rather fair.