French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900)
Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 79
y fixerent sesassiduites. High living and high play were an irresistibleattraction to an impoverished and spendthrift society, and afterthe fall of Law and the break-up of the System, the whole of 1 Letter of 26 Sept., 1770. De Nolhac, Les decorations de Versailles. G.B. A., 1896, p. 47. 2 26 Feb.,… … France was mad, as Mathieu Marais puts it, to marry into the Jacques-family (or the cashbox) of Samuel Bernard. 1 Gabriel Ostentatious devotion to letters and the arts gave—as in and hisMadame de Pompadours Choisy chateau—grace to every form Succes-of licence. Of de la Popeliniere we hear that sa…
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