Litchfield, Frederick · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 59
ff and formal, but they would scarcely be dis-tinguishable from those of the previous style, unless 39 HOW TO COLLECT OLD FURNITURE marked by some detail which showed this classicinfluence. The reader will remember that the yearswere renumbered and the months renamed by theNational Convention,… … A FIRST EMPIRE CHAIR The First Empire Then followed the Napoleonic period. As firstConsul and afterwards as Emperor, Napoleon Iloved to pose as Caesar; his portraits by Canovain marble represent him as a Roman Emperorcrowned with a garland of bay leaves; and in warand pcHtics the role of a Roman…
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