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Excerpt from L'Art de Reconnaitre les Styles: Le Style Empire
A l'ordre compressif de Louis XIV, succede la reac tion de la Regence et de Louis XV. La gravite est supplantee par la grace a l'ordre et a la majeste se substituent, dans la vie sociale comme dans l'archi tecture, le confort et le caprice. C'est le regne des femmes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
