Louis period styles
Louis period styles is the collective name for five distinct styles of French architecture and interior design. The styles span the period from 1610 to 1793.[1]
Five styles
Each of the five styles is named for the ruler during the particular period:
- 1610–1643: Louis XIII style (Louis Treize), in the early phase of French Baroque
- 1643–1715: Louis XIV style (Louis Quatorze)
- 1715–1723: French Regency style (Régence), during the regency of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans
- 1723–1774: Louis XV style (Louis Quinze)
- 1774–1793: Louis XVI style (Louis Seize)
Applications
The terms are applied as style terms for the French forms of:
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gollark: Microcontrollers and annoying low-level CPU details and whatever, I assume.
gollark: I think people would mostly call that "power grid engineering" or something.
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gollark: That's just electrical engineering.
References
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