The Silent Master of the Louis XVI Style In the gilded corridors of eighteenth-century France, where the splendor of Versailles and the intimacy of Fontainebleau dictated the rhythm of aristocratic life, certain names whispered of unparalleled elegance without ever needing to shout. Jean-Baptiste Claude Sené (1748–18 03) was precisely such a master. A virtuoso of the menuisier craft, Sené did not merely c…