French Second Empire style
French Second Empire style. Eclectic mixture of Baroque, Empire, François Ier, Louis Quatorze, Louis Seize, Neo-Classical, and Renaissance styles prevalent in the France of Napoleon III (1852–70).
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Lampugnani (ed.) & Dinsmoor (1986)
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