From apprentice to court jeweler -- Rue de la Paix -- The garland style -- Tiaras -- Art nouveau, religious art, the war years -- Under the spell of Fabergé -- In St. Petersburg -- Pearls -- Charles Jacqueau and the Ballet Russes -- Pharaohs, sphinxes and pyramids -- Les Indes galantes -- '1925': the preparation of a style -- Vanity Fair: toilet and cosmetic articles, the Chinese influence, Department 'S' -- Chimaeras, dragons and great cats -- The great necklaces, the London workshops, dealers -- 'The jeweled flight of time' -- Swords for academicians, Cartier's patents, the Second World War -- The great transactions -- The Cartier family tree -- Chronology.
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