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THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE: Francois I. and the Chateau of Fontainebleau Influence on Courtiers, Chairs of the time Design of Cabinets M.E. Bonnaffé on The Renaissance, Bedstead of Jeanne d'Albret Deterioration of taste in time of Henry IV., Louis XIII. Furniture Brittany woodwork.
It is the mystery which envelopes great men that gives them half their greatness. There is a kind of superstitious reverence for office which leads us to exaggerate the merits of the occupant, and to suppose that he must be wiser than common men. He, however, who gains access to cabinets, soon finds out by what foolishness the world is governed.
That night his cosmopolitan refugee friends were all at liberty; his French disciples could pour in from the little lanes and courts in Soho, where, since the Commune, they had plied their peaceful trades as engravers, picture-framers, artists'-colourmen, models, pointers, and so forth for most of them were hangers-on in one way or another of the artistic world; his German adherents could stroll round, pipe in mouth, from their printing-houses, their ham-and-beef shops, or their naturalists' chambers, where they stuffed birds or set up exotic butterflies in little cabinets for most of them were more or less literary or scientific in their pursuits; and his few English sympathisers, chiefly dissatisfied philosophical Radicals of the upper classes, could drop in casually for a chat and a smoke, on their way home from the churches to which they had been dutifully escorting their un-emancipated wives and sisters.
In the more than a hundred years of cabinets in the history of the United States there has never been an abler or a purer cabinet than this. As guesses, more or less accurate, were made as to what the cabinet would be, many "leading citizens" felt called on to labor with the President and show him the error of his ways. As late as March 2d there was an outbreak against Chase.
He laughed with scornful superiority. No one was to accompany him to the station; on that he insisted. He had decided for as early a train as possible, that the dolours of leave-taking might be abridged. At a quarter to eight the cab drove up to the door. Out with the trunks labelled 'London'! 'Take care of the cabinets! were his last words to his mother.
Enormous mirrors, spread on white and gold walls; large copies from Italian pictures, collected by Henry Marsham in Rome; more facile statues holding innumerable lights; great pieces of modern china painted with realistic roses and poppies; crimson carpets, gilt furniture, and flaring cabinets Miss Drake frowned as she looked at it.
She saw a room of medium size, which from the end of the sixteenth century had been known as the Red Drawing Room a room panelled in stamped Cordovan leather, and filled with rare and beautiful things; with ebony cabinets, and fine lacquer; with the rarest of oriental carpets, with carved chairs, and luxurious sofas.
Its floor was of polished parquetry with a few fine skins from British Columbia spread upon it here and there, and the dainty, spindle-legged chairs, the little tables, the cabinets and the Watteau figures were, he fancied, either of old French manufacture or excellent copies.
It was elsewhere, far and wide, that were felt the moral effects which echoed the sudden, unexpected crash with which the lower Mississippi fell through the length and breadth of the South and in the cabinets of foreign statesmen, who had believed too readily, as did their officers on the spot, that the barrier was not to be passed that the Queen City of the Confederacy was impregnable to attack from the sea.
Here are the keys of the cabinets in the drawing-room, Cosmo. Her ladyship may like to look at some of their contents." "I hardly know enough about them," returned Cosmo. "Won't you come yourself, father, and show them to us?" It was the first time the boy used the appellation.
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