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When the Netherlands was seized by France, Louis XIV commissioned new types for use during his reign. The King kept the font as a monopoly to himself, with penalties against unauthorized reproduction. In the following century, Fournier's Modèles des Caractères (1742; spelled by him as Modéles des Caracteres) continued the Romain du Roi style, but adapted it for his own new age. The typefaces that Fournier and successors created had

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