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    Even the luxury loving Charles II (1660-1685) had no glazed windows in his palace.
    At the close of the eighteenth century, shortly after the Revolutionary War, there existed in Paris, the world's most civilized capital, a large corporation engaged in the manufacture of window sashes fitted with oiled paper.
    Both France and Belgium reverted to this expedient for enclosing their houses during the first days of reconstruction after the close of the World War-- all the window glass factories being destroyed or unable to resume operations.
    The use of flat glass for windows did not become general until the eighteenth century.
    An indication of the fact that windows were regarded as a luxury is found in the "window tax" that was levied on these openings by the English government of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A similar tax still is levied in France.