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ing design, matching the brick and plaster architecture of the White 

 Horse Court. 



FRENCH INFLUENCE ABROAD. The great pageant of Louis XIV. 's 

 reign had so long held the European stage that the life of other 

 countries had to some extent become moulded to the French pattern. 

 Every sovereign, down to the pettiest German princeling, sought to 

 model his court on that of 

 the " Roi Soleil," and more 

 or less successful imitations 

 of Versailles, Trianon, and 

 Marly sprang up here, there, 

 and everywhere, while 

 French fashions in litera- 

 ture, etiquette, and dress 

 spread to neighbouring 

 lands and beyond them. 

 As had been the case 

 hitherto with Italians, so 

 now French architects, 

 decorators, and garden de- 

 signers were everywhere in 

 request. Louis XIV. was 

 the means of unintention- 

 ally aiding this dissemina- 

 tion of French art by the 

 Revocation of the Edict of 

 Nantes (1685), which made 

 life in France impossible 

 for Protestants who refused 

 to abjure their faith. The 

 first important swarm of 

 French designers working 

 abroad consisted of 

 Huguenot emigres includ- 

 ing Daniel Marot, who 

 went to Holland, and the 

 Du Ry family, who settled 

 in Cassel. They were 



followed into a voluntary, and sometimes only temporary, exile by 

 many others throughout the eighteenth century, such as Le Blond, 

 Cuvillies, or Ixnard. Others again like J. H. Mansart, de Cotte, 

 Meissonnier, Boffrand, and Jean F. Blondel sent their designs from Paris 

 for execution abroad, with or without paying a preliminary visit. 



GENEVA. French influence was naturally supreme in the border 



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