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ough
beautiful at its best, is of the three the most ornate and is
characterised in its worst stage by the extremely bowed (cabriole)
legs of the furniture, ludicrously suggestive of certain debauched
courtiers who surrounded the =5FGrande Monarch=5F=2E
Louis XV legs show a curve, also, but no longer the stoggy, squat
cabriole of the over-fed gallant=2E Instead we are entranced by an
ethereal grace and lightness of movement in every line and decoration=2E
Here cabriole means but a courtly knee swiftly bending to salute some
beauty's hand=2E So subtly waving is the curving outline of this
furniture that one scarcely knows where it begins or ends, and it is
the same with the decorations--exquisitely delicate waving traceries
of vines and flora, gold on gold, inlay, or paint in delicate tones=2E
All this gives to the Louis XV period supremacy over Louis XVI, whose
round, grooved, tapering straight legs, one tires of more quickly,
although fine gold and lovely paint make this type winning and
beloved=2E
From Louis XVI we pass to the Directoire, when, following the
Revolution, the voice of the populace decried all ostentation and
everything savouring of the superfluous=2E The Great Napoleon in his
first period affected simplicity and there were no longer bronze
mounts, in rosettes, garlands and bow-knots, elaborate inlaying, nor
painted furniture with lovely flowering surfaces=3B in the most severe
examples not even fluted legs=21 Instead, simple but delicately
proportioned furniture with slender, squarely cut, chastely tapering
legs, arms and backs, was the fashion=2E In fact, the Directoire type is
one of ideal proportions, graceful outlines with a flowing movement
and the decoration when present, kept well within bounds, entirely
subservient to the main structural material=2E One feels an almost
Quaker-like quality about the Directoire, whether of natural wood or
plain painted surface=2E
With Napoleon's assumption of regal power and habits, we get the
Empire (he had been to Rome and Egypt), pseudo-classic in outline and
richly ornamented with mounts in ormoulu characteristic of the Louis=2E
The Empire period in furniture was dethroned by the succeeding r=D0=B9gime=
=2E
When we see old French chairs with leather seats and backs, sometimes
embossed, in the Portuguese style, with small regular design, put on
with heavy nails and twisted or straight stretchers (pieces of wood
extending between legs of chairs), we know that they belong to the
time of Henry IV or Louis XIII=2E Some of the large chairs show the
shell design in their broad, elaborate stretchers=2E
The beautiful small side tables of the Louis and First Empire called
consoles, were made for the display of their marvellously wrought
pieces of silver, hammered and chiselled by hand,--=22museum pieces,=22
indeed, and lucky is the collector who chances upon any specimen
adrift=2E
CHAPTER XIX
THE PERIODS OF THE THREE LOUIS
The only way to learn how to distinguish the three =5FLouis=5F is to study
these periods in collections of furniture and objects of art, or,
where this is impossible, to go through books showing interiors of
those periods=2E In this way one learns to visualise the salient
features of any period and gradually to acquire a =5Ffeeling=5F for them,
that subtle sense which is not dependent wholly upon outline,=22 ></a></td>=
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ee Louis mark a succession of great periods=2E Louis XIV, though
beautiful at its best, is of the three the most ornate and is
characterised in its worst stage by the extremely bowed (cabriole)
legs of the furniture, ludicrously suggestive of certain debauched
courtiers who surrounded the =5FGrande Monarch=5F=2E
Louis XV legs show a curve, also, but no longer the stoggy, squat
cabriole of the over-fed gallant=2E Instead we are entranced by an
ethereal grace and lightness of movement in every line and decoration=2E
Here cabriole means but a courtly knee swiftly bending to salute some
beauty's hand=2E So subtly waving is the curving outline of this
furniture that one scarcely knows where it begins or ends, and it is
the same with the decorations--exquisitely delicate waving traceries
of vines and flora, gold on gold, inlay, or paint in delicate tones=2E
All this gives to the Louis XV period supremacy over Louis XVI, whose
round, grooved, tapering straight legs, one tires of more quickly,
although fine gold and lovely paint make this type winning and
beloved=2E
From Louis XVI we pass to the Directoire, when, following the
Revolution, the voice of the populace decried all ostentation and
everything savouring of the superfluous=2E The Great Napoleon in his
first period affected simplicity and there were no longer bronze
mounts, in rosettes, garlands and bow-knots, elaborate inlaying, nor
painted furniture with lovely flowering surfaces=3B in the most severe
examples not even fluted legs=21 Instead, simple but delicately
proportioned furniture with slender, squarely cut, chastely tapering
legs, arms and backs, was the fashion=2E In fact, the Directoire type is
one of ideal proportions, graceful outlines with a flowing movement
and the decoration when present, kept well within bounds, entirely
subservient to the main structural material=2E One feels an almost
Quaker-like quality about the Directoire, whether of natural wood or
plain painted surface=2E
With Napoleon's assumption of regal power and habits, we get the
Empire (he had been to Rome and Egypt), pseudo-classic in outline and
richly ornamented with mounts in ormoulu characteristic of the Louis=2E
The Empire period in furniture was dethroned by the succeeding r=D0=B9gime=
=2E
When we see old French chairs with leather seats and backs, sometimes
embossed, in the Portuguese style, with small regular design, put on
with heavy nails and twisted or straight stretchers (pieces of wood
extending between legs of chairs), we know that they belong to the
time of Henry IV or Louis XIII=2E Some of the large chairs show the
shell design in their broad, elaborate stretchers=2E
The beautiful small side tables of the Louis and First Empire called
consoles, were made for the display of their marvellously wrought
pieces of silver, hammered and chiselled by hand,--=22museum pieces,=22
indeed, and lucky is the collector who chances upon any specimen
adrift=2E
CHAPTER XIX
THE PERIODS OF THE THREE LOUIS
The only way to learn how to distinguish the three =5FLouis=5F is to study
these periods in collections of furniture and objects of art, or,
where this is impossible, to go through books showing interiors of
those periods=2E In this way one learns to visualise the salient
features of any period and gradually to acquire a =5Ffeeling=5F for them,
that subtle sense which is not dependent wholly upon outline,=22 ></a></td>=
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9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, a=
nd thy seed after thee in their generations
27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble,
when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven=3B
and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them
saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies
10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the ho=
rse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at=
the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken
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