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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



350. ARABESQUE BY F. CUVILLIES, SEN. 



the gross or puerile grotesques 

 of the sixteenth century, and 

 the sinister and leering ones of 

 the age of Louis XIII., the 

 eighteenth century found a 

 more genial and playful type 

 in " Chinoiseries " ; and since 

 in the ideas of the time "there 

 was but a step from the Sons of 

 Heaven to apes," " Singeries," 

 in which monkeys in human 

 costume play their pranks, 

 were an equally popular motive 

 (Fig. 348). To these must be 

 added humorous episodes in 

 high and low life, scenes repre- 

 senting sport, pastimes, and 

 gallantry, and, to a less degree 

 than formerly, of mythology ; 

 fetes champetres in which ladies 

 and gentlemen in modern 

 dress picnic or dance minuets 

 in landscapes of elaborate 

 naturalness (Fig. 343), and 

 bergeries in which they mas- 

 querade as shepherds and 

 shepherdesses in an artificial 

 Arcadia. 



STYLE OF THE REGENCY. 

 The "Style Regence " is 

 the name given to the short 

 phase which forms the transi- 

 tion from the Style of Louis 

 XIV. to that of Louis XV. 

 It flourished roughly during 

 the first quarter of the eigh- 

 teenth century. Examples of 

 it may be seen in a rather 

 restrained form in the decora- 

 tions of the choir of Notre 

 Dame in Paris (1700 10) and 

 of the chapel at Versailles 

 and its vestibule (1709-10) 

 (Figs. 381 and 388), carried 



