Confidents Des Coeurs

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Le Carre Hermes > Fall-Winter 2000/01

BEAR NECESSITIES

Around 1895, in Stuttgart, a certain Richard Steiff, who had to draw bears in the zoo, undertook to make some fur toys. two Americans were so charmed by this initiative that they ordered 3000 copies of his creation for the fair at Leipzig. So there is an Anglo-Saxon connection for our most faithful companion, not only of childhood, but also adulthood, since one of the teddies in this scarf was the bosom friend of a charming octogenarian, whose express wish was to have it buried with her.