Deyrolle

Photo: Francois Mori/Associated Press
NYTimes
Elaine Sciolino

Published: November 14, 2008

PARIS — When a fire ripped through Deyrolle, the beloved taxidermy establishment here, early one morning last February, it was as if a dagger had been plunged into the heart of Paris. “I have my own drawer of bugs and butterflies from Deyrolle,” said Bruce Guenther, chief curator at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum. “Whenever I came to Paris with friends, I’d take them there. It was a place of dreams.”

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