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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This book contains a treatise on French furniture from the renaissance to the Empire style. A fascinating book full of detailed photographs and interesting info

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