The late Pierre Verlet, conservateur en chef du Departement des Objets d'Art at the Louvre, was the unquestioned expert on pre-Revolutionary French decorative a

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"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its pain

Over 200 color and black and white photos and text to interpret French country antique furniture in fourteen separate regions of France. Explains differences in