The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 270
THE REGENCE AND LOUIS XV. PERIODS 197 his household expenses and habitual revels alone consumed onequarter of the whole public revenue wrung out of his people;while starvation, in the words of Taine, became an endemic disease, … PAMF.I, DY WATTKAU. forcing the peasants to desert the homes they could no longer keepup, and to crowd as beggars to the towns. The victor before whom English, Dutch, and Austrian troopsfled at Fontenoy in 1745, the loser at Rossbach in 1757, and atMinden in 1759 : the worn-out, vicious monarch,…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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