. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . THE LATER RENAISSANCE INFRANCE, 1589-1643 Henri iv. of France and Navarre, 1589-1610 (Queen, 1610-1614). Louis xiii., 1614-1643 HENRI QUATRE and Louis Treize ! What exciting if unrealvisions do they conjure up of swords and daggers, gallants andbravos, musqueteers and courtbeauties, moving through swift mazy plotand counterplot, played as a game, yet lifeand death the stakes, with a backgroundof brilliant if violent contrasts. Writers of historical and pseudo-historical romance have made the periodso peculiarly theu- untrammell
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . THE LATER RENAISSANCE INFRANCE, 1589-1643 Henri iv. of France and Navarre, 1589-1610 (Queen, 1610-1614). Louis xiii., 1614-1643 HENRI QUATRE and Louis Treize ! What exciting if unrealvisions do they conjure up of swords and daggers, gallants andbravos, musqueteers and courtbeauties, moving through swift mazy plotand counterplot, played as a game, yet lifeand death the stakes, with a backgroundof brilliant if violent contrasts. Writers of historical and pseudo-historical romance have made the periodso peculiarly theu- untrammelled andpicturesque hunting ground, that would-be veracious historians of modes mobiharyfeel almost apologetic for trenching uponthe half-century following the decision ofthe debonair grandsire of our Charles ii.—Henry of Navarre—that France wasworth a mass. The novelist may exercise his im-aginative gift upon the woodwork accessories of his scenes, as well as the 239. CHIMNEY-PIECE, LOUIS CORMATIN. CHATEAU 240 DECORATIVE FURNITURE deeds of his actors. The chronicler of ornamental furniture wouldbe peculiarly grateful for such a privilege, for, whilst of furnishingequipments during the succeeding reign of Louis xiv., one can formdefinite judgment based upon authentic data, the close of thesixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century lieupon the tantalising borderland of the known-unknown, and muchof such information as is available adds to the darkness rather than illuminates. A somewhat analogous process to that bywhich England evolved her Stuart furnitureduring the period 1603-1688 occurred duringthe contemporary century in France, comprisingthe reigns of Henri iv., Louis xiii., and the firsthalf of Louis long government. Italy,Spain, Flanders, and even Germany wererequisitioned for such aesthetic inspirationas they could yield. If, until the advent ofthe styles called after the Fourteenth,Fifteenth, and Sixteenth L
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