Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

Directoire style is the refers to the Neoclassical styles in the decorative arts and fashion that characterize the period.

Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style.

In France, the first phase of neoclassicism is expressed in the " Louis XVI style ", the second phase in the styles we call " Directoire " or Empire.

Château de Malmaison, 1800, room for the Empress Joséphine, on the cusp between Directoire style and Empire style

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

Directoire style,, describes a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design, concurrent with the post-Revolution French Directory ( November 2, 1795 through November 10, 1799 ).

The Directoire style reflected the Revolutionary belief in the values of republican Rome: " The stoic virtues of Republican Rome were upheld as standards not merely for the arts but also for political behaviour and private morality.

* Directoire style

Her salon was famous and she was one of the originators of the Greek Revival Directoire style women's fashions of the French Directory period.

In 1796 Holland started remodelling Southill House, Southill, Bedfordshire, for Samuel Whitbread the work would continue until 1802, the exterior was remodelled with loggias and a portico with Ionic columns and the interiors completed modernised in the latest French Directoire style.

The style developed and elaborated the Directoire style of the immediately preceding period, which aimed at a simpler, but still elegant evocation of the virtues of the Ancient Roman Republic: " The stoic virtues of Republican Rome were upheld as standards not merely for the arts but also for political behaviour and private morality.

The preceding Louis XVI and Directoire styles employed straighter, simpler designs in comparison with the Rococo style of the 18th century.

In 1929 the building was renovated in the style of Directoire Manor Houses of France.

The son of Georges Jacob, an outstanding chairmaker who worked in the Louis XVI style and Directoire styles of the earlier phase of Neoclassicism and executed many royal commissions, Jacob-Desmalter, in partnership with his older brother, assumed the family workshop in 1796.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

This was Napoleon's idea and the Directoire agreed to the plan in order to send the popular general away from the mainland.

The Directoire was threatened by the Second Coalition ( 1798 – 1802 ).

The overture was rejected, and it caused a lot of embarrassment in the relations with the French Directoire.

When the Directoire came into power in 1795 the Maximum Price Act was lifted.

* The Directory ( Directoire ) – From 22 August, 1795, the Convention was replaced by the Directory, a bicameral legislature that more or less institutionalized the dominance of the bourgeoisie while also enacting a major land reform that was henceforward to place the peasants firmly on the political right.

The law was officially abolished in October 1795, immediately preceding the installation of the Directoire in November 1795.

The Council of Five Hundred ( Conseil des Cinq-Cents ), or simply the Five Hundred was the lower house of the legislature of France during the period commonly known ( from the name of the executive branch during this time ) as the Directory ( Directoire ), from 22 August 1795 until 9 November 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the French Revolution.

The Council of Ancients or Council of Elders () was the upper house of the Directory ( French: Directoire ), the legislature of France from 22 August 1795 until 9 November 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the French Revolution.

He was asked by the French Directoire to try to set up a Franco-Persian alliance, but was unsuccessful, lacking the training of a diplomat.

Notably Captain Jacques Bergeret, captured in April 1796 with the frigate Virginie, was sent from England to Paris to negotiate his own exchange ; when the Directoire refused, he returned to London.

Under the Directoire he was rehabilitated and regained his rank in December 1795.

The diamond was used as security on several occasions by the Directoire and later the Consulat, before being permanently redeemed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801.

The Guard had its origin in the Consular Guard ( Garde des consuls ), created November 28, 1799 by the union of the Guard of the Directory ( Garde du Directoire exécutif ) and the Grenadiers of the Legislature ( Grenadiers près de la Représentation nationale ).

During the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the Directoire had replaced the National Convention.

* L. Sciout, Le Directoire ( Paris, 1895 — 97 ).

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

Bermuda was not in style that year.

And though in his later years he revised his poems many times, the revisions did not alter the essential nature of the style which he had established before he was thirty ; ;

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

The `` Poems of 1912 - 13 '' offer a good example of Hardy's style as it was manifested in the later productive decade.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

In the new style, the Department was berated as intellectually barren and unable to produce the vital ideas needed to outwit the Russians.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

These inwardly dramatic moments showed the kind of `` opera style '' of which Beethoven was genuinely capable, but which did not take so kindly to the mechanics of staging.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

This style was also influenced by Western music such as rock, reggae and the funk.

But by the 1500s Mannerism had overtaken the Renaissance and it was this style that caught on in Europe.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

Hence the Rococo style was highly dominated by the feminine taste and influence.

Romanticism was basically a reaction against Neoclassicism, it is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, beautiful, exotic, and emotionally wrought.

This style of government was highly praised by his contemporaries and by later generations.