François de Salverte

Count François de Salverte (1872–1929) was a French aristocrat, diplomat and non-fiction writer about furniture design.

Early life François de Salverte was born into an aristocratic family in 1872. His father, Georges Napoléon Baconière de Salverte (1833-1899), was a senior lawyer at the Conseil d'Etat. Two years later, in July 1929, he gifted a copy to Queen consort Mary of Teck.

He published articles about furniture design in La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. In 1928, he gave a lecture about Martin Carlin and Georges Jacob, two ébénistes, at a conference organised by the Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français.

Shortly before his death, he started writing Le Meuble français d'après les ornemanistes de 1660 à 1789. The book was finished by Gustave Macon, Assistant to Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale and Archivist at the Château de Chantilly, with a foreword written by his widow. In the book, he stressed that he valued French furniture design during the Ancien Régime, and saw furniture designed after the French Revolution, including during the Bourbon Restoration, as "decadent."

Personal life He married Marguerite Dupré on 28 June 1900 in Paris 8th. She became styled as Countess de Salverte.

Death He died in 1929 at the castle of Saint-Thaurin.