An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Borders by Babel. P. E. Babel, a French designer and etcher, was born in Paris in the early part of the 18th century. Itis reported he was a goldsmith as well as a designer and engraver of vignettes. He engraved numerousplates of ornamental decoration, and also designed and engraved decorations for books. \ His work was muchadmired. He died in 1761. Louis

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