The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 39
minded, among other censures levelled againt thatfashionable exhibition of vanity, of the expostulations of Martial dAuvergne,author of the historical poem, Les Vigiles de Charles VII., addressed tothe bishops on the subject. One item significant enough is mentioned inancient documents; it is the… … Fig. 7.—Louise de Savoie, Duchess of Angouleme, mother of Francis I., seated in a high-backed Chair of carvedwood. (Miniature from a MS. in the Imp. Bibl. of Paris.) More plain, but also more useful, were the abace and the credence, otherkinds of sideboards which generally stood at a little…
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