. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . KENAISSAXCE BAHUT. MUSfiE DELOUVRE. was destined to pro-foundly influence the styles and prestigeof French decorative work in the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. In the words of the letters patentsetting this fruitful action in motion, Wehave also in the construction of the Galleryof the Louvre had the thought of orderingthe building of such a form as to enableus conveniently to lodge therein a numberof the best masters there are to be „ . 11. 1 .1 1 MEUriLE A DEUX CORPS. FREXCH. MIDDLB lound, . . both in order to avail
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . KENAISSAXCE BAHUT. MUSfiE DELOUVRE. was destined to pro-foundly influence the styles and prestigeof French decorative work in the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. In the words of the letters patentsetting this fruitful action in motion, Wehave also in the construction of the Galleryof the Louvre had the thought of orderingthe building of such a form as to enableus conveniently to lodge therein a numberof the best masters there are to be „ . 11. 1 .1 1 MEUriLE A DEUX CORPS. FREXCH. MIDDLB lound, . . both in order to avail ourselves century. mus£e 242 DECORATIVE FURNITURE of their serWces and also to form a training school for workers, from which, under the guidance of such good mastera should come artisans who would disperse throughout our kingdom, and be able to serve the public to very good purpose. Foreigrners as well as Frenchmen were welcomed: indeed, the first woodwork craftsmen appear to have been Laurent Starbe, a Fleming; Jean Mace of Blois, the earliest of well-known marqiteteurs in France, who also learnt his craft in Flanders; and Pierre Boulle, who appears to have been a Swiss, the uncle of the great Boulle le Pere. Something akin to a reign of terror was experienced by the French people and court under the domination of that talented bigot and reputed poisoner, Catherine de Medici. It extended practically through the four reignsof Henri ii., Fran9ois ii.,Charles ix., and Henri dramatic horrors ofthe Massacre of St. Bar-tholomew struck so deeplyinto the mentality of thetimes that one does notwonder to find
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