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Their kitchen pans were likely cast iron, gilded with bacon grease and seasoned until fried eggs slid across their surface like hockey pucks.

In return, Mexico offered to ship to Austria various objects from Maximilian’s ill-fated reign, including a gilded carriage in which he and his wife, Carlota, tooled around the capital.

The president held up renderings of the ballroom, which followed the hotelier’s preferred motif of gilded fixtures against white walls.

PARIS—A group of thieves sawed through a window in a gilded gallery at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, making off via motorcycle with a set of priceless royal jewels, French officials said.

His other second-term developments include a gilded makeover for the White House, paving over the Rose Garden and constructing a $250m ballroom, as well as the clearing of homeless encampments throughout the capital.