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TORCHERE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TORCHERE  , a

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candelabrum mounted upon a tall stand of
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wood or
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metal, usually with two or three
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lights . When it was first introduced in
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France towards the end of the 17th
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century the torchere mounted one
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candle only, and when the number was doubled or tripled the improvement was regarded almost as a revolution in the
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lighting of large rooms .

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