Thanks largely to her presence on the left bank, and the availability of water, noble families began to build houses on the left bank, in a neighborhood that became known as the Faubourg Saint-Germain. An elaborate carrousel took place 5–7 April 1612 at the Place Royale (now the Place des Vosges) to celebrate its completion. When Richelieu died, the church became his final resting place. The first to hold the office is. The first to hold the title is Jean-Baptiste Le Ragois de Bretonvilliers de Saint-Dié. However, it could be a very unpleasant walk; the narrow streets were crowded with carts, carriages, wagons, horses, cattle and people; there were no sidewalks, and the paving stones were covered with a foul-smelling soup of mud, garbage and horse and other animal droppings. 13 September – The King, Queen Mother and Mazarin leave Paris for, 18 January – Mazarin orders the arrest of, 21 January – A flood carries away half of the. A long terrace was built on the north side, looking down at the garden, and a circular basin was constructed, along with an octagonal basin on the central axis. I saw a house half-buried in mud, crumbling with age and rot, which had only a fraction of its roof tiles, where however were lodged more than fifty families, with all their legitimate, illegitimate and undetermined children. He decided instead upon a dramatic gesture to win over the Parisians; on July 25, 1593, at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, Henry IV formally renounced his Protestant faith. Recalling that the ancient Romans had built an aqueduct from Rungis to their baths on the left bank, Sully, the minister of public works, sent engineers to find the route of the old aqueduct. The business was started by an entrepreneur from Amiens named Sauvage on the rue Saint-Martin. At the suggestion of his royal secretary, Charles Paulet, he required the hereditary nobility of France to pay an annual tax for their titles. In 1670, the city contracted with the engineer in charge of the Samaritaine to build a second pump on the pont Notre-Dame, then, in the same year on the same bridge, a third pump. They were supposed to awake at five in the morning and to work from 5:30 in the morning until 7:00 in the evening. Richelieu died in 1642, and Louis XIII six months later in 1643. The woman. The new style in Paris was characterized by opulence, irregularity, and an abundance of decoration. The two levels were connected with s-shaped volutes and consoles, and the whole facade was covered with niches and other decorative elements. Other painters who achieved fame in Paris early in the century were Claude Vignon, Nicolas Poussin, Philippe de Champagne, Simon Vouet, and Eustache Le Sueur. It was located at the corner of rue Saint-Honoré and rue de Valois. By the late 18th century, the trend was dying out. In 1616, she had built the Cours-la-Reine a promenade 1.5 kilometers long, shaded by four rows of elm trees, along the Seine. Concini's wife was charged with sorcery, beheaded and then burned at that stake on the Place de Greve. Below the craftsmen and artisans was the largest class of Parisians; domestic servants, manual workers with no special qualifications, laborers, prostitutes, street sellers, rag-pickers, and a hundred other trades, with no certain income. At the beginning of May, the royal army of Turenne defeated the Frondeurs under Condé at Étampes, not far from Paris; they fought again at Saint Denis April 10 and 12. [52], The cabaret was the ancestor of the restaurant, which did not appear until the 18th century. The house itself opened both onto the courtyard and onto a separate garden. [29], During the reign of Louis XIII, the King's official representative in Paris was the Prévôt or Provost of Paris, who had his offices at the Châtelet fortress, but most of the day-to-day administration of the city was conducted from the recently finished Hôtel de Ville, under the direction of the Provost of the Merchants, elected by the bourgeois or upper-middle class of Paris. The most important was in honor of the patron saint of the city, Saint Geneviève, from the church on the left bank containing her tomb to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Most of the positions of the Bureau of the City had to be purchased with a large sum of money, but once acquired, many of them could be held for life. The stones are in place by 4 August. The position of Provost of the Merchants had no salary, but it had many benefits. On July 2, Condé's soldiers fought the royal army just outside the city, beneath the walls of the Bastille, and were defeated. On September 24, a large demonstration took place outside the Palais-Royal, demanding the return of the King. More than twelve hundred barricades erected in Paris streets against the royal authorities, and prisoners seized by Mazarin are liberated on the 29th. The dome was inspired by dome of Saint Peter's in Rome, which also inspired the domes at the churches of Val-de-Grace and Les Invalides. The work consisted of grinding wheat, brewing beer, cutting wood, and other menial tasks; the women and girls over the age of eight were employed by sewing. Renaudot had good connections with Cardinal Richelieu, and his new paper was given royal patronage; La Gazette took over the earlier newspaper, and also became the first to have advertising. The Duke of Luynes died during an unsuccessful military campaign against the Protestants in Montauban. At the top were the Honorable hommes, a category which included the most successful merchants, artisans who had ten or fifteen employees, and a considerable number of successful painters, sculptors and engravers. The soldiers of Condé, furious, attacked the assembly, killing some of the members, further alienating the Parisians. When he finally returned to France, he entered the clergy and became chaplain to the French prisoners in Paris sentenced to the galleys. 15 January – The Royal Council orders the placing of thirty-one stones to mark the edges of the city; building beyond the stones without royal approval is forbidden. There was an outbreak of bubonic plague in the city in 1631, and there were frequent cases of leprosy, tuberculosis and syphilis in Paris. It took its name from the enseigne or hanging sign on the building, with an image of Saint Fiacre. 6–7 January – Cardinal Mazarin flees from Paris. This style was used by Jacques Lemercier for the chapel of the Sorbonne (1635-1642), and by François Mansart for the church of the Val-de-Grace, built for Anne of Austria, the widow of Louis XIII. It was finished between 1600 and 1607, and was the first Paris bridge without houses and with sidewalks. At about the same time that the ornate baroque style appeared, the architect Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626) introduced a new classical French style, based on the traditional orders of architecture (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian), placed one above the other. Louis XIII, the Queen, nobles and wealthy bourgeois organized concerts and recitals and took music lessons. In March 1667 the King created the position of Lieutenant General of the police, with his office at the Chatelet, and gave the position to La Reynie, who held it for thirty years, from 1667 to 1697. Peck, Amelia, and Amy Elizabeth Bogansky, eds. 27 July – First stone placed for the convent of the Trinity of the order of the reformed, 26 September – The Protestant temple at Charenton is burned by a Catholic mob, after the news of the death of, 22 October – For centuries, the bishop of Paris was under the authority of the archbishop of, 25 February – Consecration of the church of, 7 March – Louis XIII lays the first stone of the. 21 October – Louis XIV and his court return in triumph to Paris, and take up residence in the Louvre. Below them were the maîtres and then the compagnons, craftsmen who had finished their apprenticeships. [54], The life of Parisians in the 17th century was usually hard and short, and perhaps for this reason the calendar was filled with holidays and celebrations. Hart, Avril, Susan North, Richard Davis, and Leonie Davis. Twenty percent had their own shops. LISTING OF THE DAY. De Paul and the sisters of the order made visits to churches to bring babies abandoned there at night to the new home. Various Costumes, 1631-1750.By: Charles William Jeffery. Stylistically innovative and technically exceptional, the outstanding reputation of the French clothing industry can be traced as far back as the 17th century, and it is a reputation that has only continued to strengthen since. One good example in its original form is the Hôtel de Sully, (1624-1629), built by Jean Androuret du Cerceau.[77]. Huggett, Jane, Ninya Mikhaila, Jane Malcolm-Davies, and Michael Perry. [33], Under Louis XIV and his minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the royal manufactories were expanded. In 1657, a decree of the Parlement of Paris gave the exclusive rights to operate coaches for hire to an ecuyer of the King, Pierre Hugon, the sieur of Givry. They lived a very precarious existence.[21]. The standoff between Mazarin and the Fronde continued from 1648 until 1653. Large wardrobes, cupboards, and cabinets had twisted columns, broken pediments, and heavy moldings. They assured that the gates were closed and locked at night, and that the chains were put up on the streets. 20 October – During a bread shortage, the city authorities distribute bread to the poor. The new Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671, imposed an official style, as the academies of art and literature had done earlier. [42], The fiacre remained the main means of public transport until well into the 19th century, when it was gradually replaced by the omnibus, the horse-drawn tramway, and the eventually by the motorized fiacre, or taxicab.[43]. The press had a difficult birth in Paris; all publications were carefully watched and censored by the royal authorities. The first performance, of Mirame by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, co-authored by Cardinal Richelieu, was given in 1641 with Louis XIII, Queen Anne of Austria, and Richelieu in the audience. The city wall did not mark the real edge of the city; there were some rural areas, with gardens and orchards, inside the walls, and there were many buildings and houses outside. As one modern historian noted, their dominant characteristics were "nepotism...ostentatious luxury, arrogance, and personal conduct far removed from the morality they preached."[37]. The royalist army of Henry IV had defeated the Catholic League on the battlefield, and Henry's soldiers were bombarding Paris from the heights of Montmartre and Montfaucon, but, lacking heavy artillery he could not break through the massive walls of the city. The architectural style of the French Renaissance continued to dominate in Paris through the Regency of Marie de' Medici. Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin encouraged the development of French music in place of the Italian style. It was named because its residents often appeared to blind or lame when on the streets but were perfectly whole when they returned home. The city continued to expand. The arrival of the royal army under de Condé put down the first uprising, but the struggle between Mazarin and the Parlement continued. When the King departed Paris for Versailles, the large riding school of the Tuileries palace, the Manege, became part of one the academies, La Guériniére. The gates were closed at night, usually between seven in the evening and five in the morning, with the schedule changing depending upon the season. 1670s womenswear saw the advent of the looped-up overskirt along with a growing enthusiasm for brocade fabrics. 1972-26-1156. [75], The new architectural style was sometimes called Flamboyant Gothic or French baroque. The royal government sought to turn the University into a training school for magistrates and state officials, but found that the faculty was only trained in canon, or church law. [14], While he disliked the Parisians, Louis XIV wanted to give Paris a monumental grandeur that would make it the successor to Ancient Rome. He wore an impressive ceremonial costume of a velour robe, silk habit and a crimson cloak, and was entitled to cover his horse and his dress his household servants in a special red livery. While he built new monuments to his glory, the king also took measures to prevent any form of opposition to his will. In 1692-1693, the countryside was hit with poor harvests, causing widespread hunger in the city. The number of policemen was quadrupled. [30], The Bureau of the City had its own courts and prison. These also provided water to the palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, which together consumed about half the water supply of Paris.[45]. Behind them came the relics of the saint, carried by twenty men, also barefoot and dressed in white, carrying a jeweled chasse, followed by the members of the Parlement of Paris in their ceremonial scarlet robes, and the leaders of the leading guilds of craftsmen and artisans. The war brought more taxation for the Parisians. Asia, India. To make his intention clear Louis XIV organised a carrousel festival in the courtyard of the Tuileries in January 1661, in which he appeared, on horseback, in the costume of a Roman emperor, followed by the nobility of Paris. In 1667, Charles Perrault, the author of Sleeping Beauty and other famous fairy tales, proposed to Louis XIV that the garden be opened at times to public. Vincent, Susan J., and Peter McNeil, eds. The first French comedy-ballet, Les Fâcheux, was a collaboration between Moliere, Beauchamp and the composer Lully; it was performed on August 17, 1661. 18 March – First public transport line established of coaches running regularly between, 5–6 June – A grand circular procession, or, 6 January – Large banquet given at the Louvre, concluding with the premiere of, First exposition of works by members of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, the origin of the future. 1746, 17th Century, 18th Century, Europe, Scotland. The two new pumps went into service in 1673. Thornton, Claire, Susan North, and Jenny Tiramani. It was possible to walk at a brisk pace from the north end of the city to the south, a distance of about three kilometers, in about half an hour. "To enter there you have to descend a rather long slope, twisting and uneven. June – Authority over printers, bookbinders and book stores is transferred from the Church to secular authorities. [61] It was followed in January 1631 by a more frequent publication with a long title, Nouvelles ordinaries de divers androids. Contact us! [8], Louis XIII and Richelieu continued the rebuilding of the Louvre project begun by Henri IV. packed in vinegar, salt, & spices) and boiled salads were also regularly consumed by 16th and 17th century European diners. This dignified portrait by Diego Velázquez depicts his enslaved Black assistant, Juan de Pareja, who was a skilled artist in his own right. The Gobelins' enterprise of dyers brought in two Flemish tapestry makers in 1601 and began to make its own tapestries in the Flemish style. [48], Bread, meat and wine were the bases of the Parisian diet in the 17th century. The plan was taken from another Roman church, San Carlo ai Catinari. When kings needed more money, they simply created more positions. The courts and royal administrative offices were in the old palace on the île de la Cité. While Henry IV and Louis XIII regularly took part, Louis XIV, discontented with the Parisians, only lit the fire once, and it was never lit by Louis XV or Louis XVI. During the first part of the regime of Louis XIII Paris prospered and expanded, but the beginning of French involvement the Thirty Years' War against the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs in 1635 brought heavy new taxes and hardships. He moved his Paris residence from the Palais-Royal to the more secure Louvre: then, in 1671, he moved the royal residence out of the city to Versailles, and came into Paris as seldom as possible. 1650-1659, 17th century, artwork analysis, BIPOC. Two other major projects, the facades of the buildings around the Place des Victoires (1685-1686) and Place Louis-le-Grand (now Place Vendôme) (1687-1700) echoed the same message. The courtyard was a school of crime; the children were taught the best techniques for stealing purses and escaping, and were given a final examination of stealing a purse in a public place, such as the Cemetery of Saints-Innocents, under the scrutiny of their teachers. Each horloger was allowed to have no more than one apprentice, and apprenticeship lasted six years. Unlike a tavern, which served wine by the pot without a meal, a cabaret only served wine accompanied by a meal, served on a tablecloth. The most famous painter to work in Paris during the period was Peter Paul Rubens, who came to the city in 1622 to paint a series of murals for the Luxembourg Palace which now are in the Louvre. The local officials of each quarter were responsible for keeping lists of the residents of every house in their neighborhoods, and also keeping track of strangers. 19 September – City hall runs out of funds. The young inhabitants became expert in not only stealing, but also in simulating blindness, gangrene, rabies, and a wide variety of horrifying wounds and illnesses. The last years of the century brought more unhappiness for the Parisians. Those entering had to advance from apprentice to companion-worker to master worker, or maître. Coysevox made a heroic statue of Louis XIV as Fame for the Chateau of Marly (now in the Tuileries Gardens)) and the majestic funeral monuments for Colbert (now in the church of Saint-Eustache); for Andre le Nôtre and Racine (in the Church of Saint-Roch) and for Cardinal Mazarin (in the Louvre). Another new company appeared in the tennis court of the Marais, at rue Vieille-du-Temple, staging works by another new playwright, Pierre Corneille, including his classical tragedies Le Cid, ''Horace, Cinna and Polyeute. Its purpose, like Baroque music and painting, was to awe Parisians with its majesty and ornament, in opposition to the austere style of the Protestant Reformation. More than eighty religious orders also established themselves in Paris; sixty orders, forty for women and twenty for men, were established between 1600 and 1660. The third level of nobles who held their title because of their function, as members of the highest bodies of state, the Parlement of Paris, the Grand Council, the Chambre des comptes, and the Cour des Aides. Renaudot, a Protestant and a physician, founded the first weekly newspaper in France, La Gazette in 1631. According to Madame de Sevigné, in 1635 a procession of Benedictine monks refused to give way to a procession of Rogations, leading to a fight in the street in which two monks were struck with crucifixes and knocked unconscious. They were popular meeting-places for Parisian artists and writers; La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine frequented the Mouton Blanc on rue du Vieux-Colombier, and later the Croix de Lorraine on the modern rue de Bourg-Tibourg. With much of Europe at war, menswear took on a more militaristic edge and a parallel simplification, with the wearing of buff coats widely adopted in England. The signing of the Peace of Westphalia on May 15, 1648, ending the Thirty Years' War, allowed Mazarin to bring his army, led by the Prince of Condé, back toward Paris. In the center of the old medieval fortress, where the great round tower had been, he created the harmonious Cour Carrée, or square courtyard, with its sculpted facades. ). The King and Richelieu became increasingly unpopular with the Parisians. Inside the church was rectangular with a high vaulted ceiling, with chapels on both sides. "[79], Beginning in 1609, the Louvre Galerie was created, where painters, sculptors, and artisans lived and established their workshops. [24], In 1638, he took on another ambitious project; providing food and care for the abandoned infants of Paris, the enfants trouvés. The new residences typically were separated from the street by a wall and gatehouse. The leaders of the Parlement were received at the Palais-Royal, where Anne of Austria and the young King were living, and she agreed, after some hesitation, to release the imprisoned member of the Parlement. The 5 th map was Mussolini’s vision of the new Roman Empire that included Albania, Croatia, the Balkans, France’s Corsica and Nice, Greece, and eastern Africa from Tunisia, Libya and Egypt through the Sudan to Ethiopia and Somalia. Louis turned his attention more and more to Versailles. Late Seventeenth-Century French Fashion Prints and Dress in Portraiture.” In. North, Susan, Paul Robins, Jenny Tiramani, and Richard Davis, eds. Van der Neer’s Judith represents a 17th-century vision of a biblical character and is full of ravishing contemporary fashion detail. The French Army was defeated by the Habsburg-ruled Spanish on August 15, 1636, and for several months a Spanish army threatened Paris. In 1689, they were forced to depart because of complaints that the actors were a bad influence on the neighboring noble students of the Collège des Quatre-Nations. [28], King Henry IV, who frequently was short of money, made one decision which was to have fateful consequences for Paris for two centuries to follow. In 1669, fiacres were required to have large numbers painted in yellow on the sides and rear of the coach. Diego Bemba’s 1643 portrait, along with those of Pedro Sunda and Miguel de Castro, represents an early example of cultural exchange in which African ambassadors donning European costume in order to project a carefully curated image of cultural capital. [58], Another traditional Parisian form of celebration, the grand fireworks display, was born in the 17th century. The status of bourgeois was granted to those Parisians who owned a house, paid taxes, had long been resident in Paris, and had an "honorable profession", which included magistrates; lawyers and those engaged in commerce, but excluded those whose business was providing food. Richelieu turned his attention to completing and beginning new projects for the improvement of Paris. The Gobelins' workshops began to produce furniture for the royal residences as well as tapestries, while the Savonnerie Manufactory produced magnificent carpets for the royal palaces. Louis exiled his mother to the Château de Blois in the Loire Valley. "[7], Richelieu died in 1642, and Louis XIII in 1643. Cunnington, Phillis Emily, and A. D. Mansfield. By the 18th century a majority of children in Paris were in various kinds of schools; there were 316 private schools for paying students, regulated by the church, and another eighty free schools for the poor, including twenty-six schools for girls, plus additional schools founded by the new religious orders in Paris. In the case of vagabonds, those who came to Paris from outside the city but had no profession or home, there was no structure to take care of them. [63], Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin lavished funds on the buildings of the University of Paris; Richelieu built a magnificent new chapel for the college of Sorbonne, which he headed, while Cardinal Mazarin built the equally-magnificent College of the Six Nations, to house nobles from the most recently added provinces of France, but the educational system of the University, which was primarily a school of theology, was in continual crisis, trying to deal with multiple heresies and challenges to its authority from newly arrived religious orders. Marie de' Medici, the widow of Henry IV, also was nostalgic for the gardens and promenades of Florence, particularly for the long tree-shaded alleys where the nobility could ride on foot, horseback and carriages, to see and be seen. In religious architecture, the rectangular shape of churches was replaced by that of a Greek cross, with the dome at the center. The coaches followed five different itineraries, including from rue Saint-Antoine to the Luxembourg by the Pont Neuf, from the Luxembourg to rue Montmartre, and a circular line, called "The Tour de Paris." The most skilled artisans in Europe were recruited and brought to Paris. Henry IV recommenced the construction of the Pont Neuf, which had been begun by Henry III in 1578, but had stopped during the wars of religion. The 1690s silhouette for women was extremely vertical and linear with the long-trained mantua being amplified by the towering fontange lace headdress. Faced with the united opposition of the leaders of Paris, Mazarin backed down and accepted many of their proposals, and waited for an opportunity to strike back. One diarist, Robert Challes, wrote that, at the height of the famine, between fourteen and fifteen hundred people of both sexes and all ages were dying daily of hunger and disease at the Hôtel de Dieu hospital and on the streets outside. The Parlement declared Mazarin a public enemy and called upon the Parisians to take up arms. Work continued until 1647. They recorded the name of a traveler coming into the quarter, whether he stayed in a hotel, a cabaret with rooms, or a private home. French designers have long created the most renowned and coveted fashion brands in the world. Richelieu quickly showed his military skills and gift for political intrigue by defeating the Protestants at La Rochelle in 1628 and by executing or sending into exile several high-ranking nobles who challenged his authority. A new aqueduct thirteen kilometers long was constructed 1613 and 1623, ending near the present-day Observatory, bringing 240,000 liters of water a day, enough for the dowager Queen's gardens and fountains. [72], The first performance of an Italian opera in Paris, La Finta Pazza by Marco Marazzoli, took place at the theater of the Palais-Royal on February 28, 1645, followed in 1647 by the more famous Orfeo of Luigi Rossi at the Petit-Bourbon theater next to the Louvre. An arranged a special mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, with the presence of the young King, to celebrate the victory, and brought soldiers into the city to line the street for the procession before the ceremony. 1670-1679, 17th century, artwork analysis. The members of the nobility of all levels usually had their own town houses, and most lived in the Marais, and later, on the newly created Île Saint-Louis and Faubourg Saint-Germain. Four hundred unwanted babies were abandoned each year at the maison de la Couche, or maternity hospital, where most died in a very short time. The young women, dressed in gray skirts and white cornettes, carried pots of soup to the poor of the neighborhoods. Lynn, Eleri, Richard Davis, and Leonie Davis. As a young man, he had been captured by pirates and held as a slave for two years. The area of the city approximately doubled from what it had been early in the century, from 500 to about 1100 hectares. In the first year, three thousand oil lanterns were put in place. 27 August – The Day of the Barricades. [62], The young noblemen of Paris, since the end of the 16th century, attended special schools called academies, where they were taught a range of military skills: horseback riding, fencing, marksmanship, the art of fortification and organizing sieges, as well as the social skills that they needed to succeed at the court: dance, music, writing, arithmetic, drawing, and understanding heraldry and coats-of-arms. 3 February – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris. The royal manufactories were kept going by enormous subsidies from the royal treasury. Isabella Clara Eugenia, painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1615, wears mostly fashionable attire for the early 17th century. Paris in the 17th century was the largest city in Europe, with a population of half a million, matched in size only by London. Between 1614 and 1635, four new bridges were built over the Seine; the Pont Marie, the Pont de la Tournelle, the Pont au Double, and the Pont Barbier. It was part of a large complex modeled after the Escorial in Spain, which combined a church, a convent, and apartments for the Queen. In the 19th century, France reaffirmed its love of fashion with the development of haute couture – fitting clothing to a particular client – and the opening of the great courtier houses. Nearly all the clock and watchmakers were Protestants; when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, most of the horlogers refused to renounce their faith and emigrated to Geneva, England and Holland, and France no longer dominated the industry. It served as the main Paris opera house until it burned on April 6, 1763.[73]. In 1637, there were 48,000 recorded skilled workers in Paris, and 13,500 maîtres.[35]. Traders or pirates – a 17th-century maritime incident in Galway that sparked an international dispute An Irishman’s Diary Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 19:01 Updated: Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 20:12 Women’s bodices elongated in the 1650s coming to a point in the front, but in general evolved only slowly from the fashions of the previous decade; whereas men’s doublets shrunk radically and their breeches expanded, becoming heavily ornamented with ribbon loops. Concini's followers were chased from Paris. On 4 July, the leaders of Paris honor him with a banquet at the, 1 March – A historic flood of the Seine washes away the, 28 November – Privilege of making and selling hot chocolate granted to David Chaillou, first, 20 January – Theater company of Molière takes up residence at the, 3–7 March – The will of Cardinal Mazarin endows the founding of the. Thereafter fireworks, launched from the quays of the Seine, were a regular feature of the celebrations of holidays and special events. [49] The taste of Parisian bread changed beginning in 1600 with the introduction of yeast, and, thanks to the introduction of milk into the bread, it became softer. Those with incurable illnesses or unable to work were taken to a third house in the faubourg Saint-Germain. Perrault's long facade had a flat roof concealed by a balustrade and a series of massive columns and triangular fronts, designed to convey elegance and power. 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