Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 326
century were too amiable, toowell-bred, ever to losetouch with the world towhom they appealed.To charm the society oftheir day, they had toretain its grace and refine-ment. The Parisian so-ciety of the reigns of LouisXV and Louis XVI owesto its artists that it ap-pears so fascinating to us ;years… … ART IN FRANCE had become too much exhausted for poetry, Gabriels Trianon, andthe works of Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Houdon, Clodion andFragonard fixed those brilHant and voluptuous images, touched attimes with emotion, but for which the men of the eighteenth centurywould seem to us very dry and…
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