Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 296
me measure this treatment. At notime in her history has Britain given us so good achance to observe how she gradually but completelysubmitted her perfectly regulated mind to the influ-ences of fashion, and to foreign ones at that. In this,her seventeenth century is unique. Louis XIV diedin 1715,… … THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. FRENCH ELEGANCE,REFINEMENT, AND GRACE ARE HERE COMBINED WITH THE EARLYEIGHTEENTH CENTURY IDEAS OF COSTUME AS IT RELATES TO SOCIALLIFE.
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