For once, Pauline is not here to talk about failure but about jewellery. The journalist is the creator and host of The Lesson, a podcast on the art of failure where she invites "successful personalities" to talk about one of their failures, professional or otherwise, and the lessons they learned from it. On the strength of her success - 2.5 million listeners! - she recently wrote her first book on the same theme, Fiasco, published by Hugo et Cie. 

In a similar way to her podcast where she tries to lift the veil on one of the French taboos which is failure, Pauline tries not to be put in one box. She dreams of acting and has already had the opportunity to go on stage with La leçon sur scène, recorded in public, and is currently writing her first stand up show.

Given the energy of our cheerful and sunny muse of the day, we're sure she's just on the verge of a multitude of new projects. And if worse comes to worst, Pauline will always learn a lesson!

 

 

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 Moreover, this admirer of the film Diamonds on the Couch laughingly tells us about one of her palliatives to failure: going to admire the tiaras at Place Vendôme. Through this meditative activity she says she rediscovers her childlike soul and thus puts her grief at bay. For Pauline, going to look at the jewels of the Parisian jewellers is almost a family tradition: she recalls for us her precious walks with her mother, where each of them figuratively chose her favourite jewels in the shop windows, and those with her father who contemplated the watches while Pauline admired the jewels. Even if she also likes contemporary pieces, she keeps an inclination for antique jewellery with delicate frames, in platinum for example; vectors of history(s) and transmission.

Discover his intimate selection.

 

 

Aquamarine

When she was a child, Pauline and her grandmother had a ritual of opening her grandmother's jewellery box together. At the age of nine, the amazed granddaughter could see her grandmother's oversized jewellery, which was also very large.

The first one that comes to mind is a ring with an aquamarine aquamarine that her grandmother had bought on the Place Vendôme in the 1950s and that made her dream, exactly like our cocktail ring below!

 

 

 

Daisies

Pauline tells us a secret: she's been mentally preparing for her wedding since she was about... four years old 😄 but it's mainly the potential engagement ring who is the object of all her attention. So when she spots our daisy with diamondsit's an instant crush.

And then, the marguerite is also a family affair: Pauline tells us about her mother's necklace with a sapphirePauline tells us about her mother's diamond, "Lady Di style", while she prefers emerald, her mother's birthstone. But as a great lover of shades of greenBut as a great lover of ..., she also loves our jade model, which combines ornamental stones and precious stones.

 

 

 

Opal

If Pauline knew the opal, she discovered the infinite variety of its shades thanks to Galerie Pénélope. Indeed, although there are opals with a colourless background, the latter can also be white, yellow, orange - in which case we speak of "fire opal" -, red, brown, black, pink, green, blue or even violet! What all opals have in common is their shimmering, multicoloured, almost fluorescent sheen. Pauline sums up the hypnotic character of the stone in a poetic way: "In the opal, there is always something to look at. So you will never be bored with our marquise ring! And if you want to know more about the October stone, the dedicated article is still available via this link.

 

 

 

Tales

Pauline loves stories. Every time she touches a piece of jewellery she asks Camille, the founder of Galerie Pénélope, if she knows the personal story behind it. Unfortunately, we often don't know much about the previous owners of the jewellery. Camille can, however, talk about the meaning, as for example with this ancient necklace known as "slavery", which has a double meaning: it could be a patriarchal version of a loyalty vow, where the man himself expresses his wife's oath through the necklace; or it could suggest the man is a slave to his love. It is this much more romantic theory that Pauline decided to retain! 😉 As for the poison ring, which by its name suggests the most sulphurous stories, it probably more often contained a souvenir - a lock of hair for example. Never mind, Pauline herself imagines the tale behind our silver and enamel necklace Art Deco Pauline herself imagines the tale behind our silver and enamel necklace: that of a young woman dressed in a little black dress and perfumed with Guerlain's Shalimar, released in 1925, to go dancing the Charleston!

 

 

 

 

We strongly encourage you to listen to The Lesson via your favourite podcast platform, while Fiasco is available in all good bookshops.

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