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 | | Having made a trip to Paris as crown prince, he was also keenly interested in Neoclassical art and design; in 1883 he traveled to Italy, where he visited Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Paestum. |
 | | The so-called Gustavian Style, still greatly admired by art-conscious Swedes, is in fact the Swedish naturalization of what we call the Louis Seize Style. |
 | | Behind the villa is an English-style park, romantically shady in parts, where, as the current owner, Hans Ramel, put it to me, his 18th-century ancestors would sit and read ("but, you know, very guardedly") Rousseau's theories about sexuality and child-rearing. |
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