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NOW CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR READY STOCK Click Here To Check Our Gallery On Alibaba Gold SupplierCollectors of 18th-century French furniture behave like members of a secret society. They bat around the names of furniture makers most people have never heard of -- Louis Cresson, Georges Jacob, Nicolas Heurtat, Jean-Baptiste Tilliard. They talk about provenance -- who owned the piece before, whether it is in the Wallace Collection catalogue in London or the Wrightsman rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They argue whether Regence is better than Louis XV and whether unpainted wood (bois naturel) is more chic than painted. But the secret society is opening up this month, when several events have been organized to introduce great French antiques to novice collectors and the merely curious. Chairs, in particular, are taking a front seat in New York's antiques world. ''The Art of the Master Joiner: French Chairs of the 18th Century,'' an exhibition and sale at the Chinese Porcelain Company, opened on Wednesday and runs through Nov. 1 on Park Avenue at 58th Street.

Right across the avenue, Christie's, in an effort to generate interest in its auction of 343 lots of French furniture, art, porcelain and carpets on Oct. 21, plans a symposium on the ''Arts of France'' on Oct. l8 and 19. It concludes with a dinner to be given by the couturier Hubert de Givenchy, a connoisseur of French furniture and president of Christie's France, that will be served with table settings circa 1771. On Oct. 17, the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, at 18 West 86th Street, opens an exhibition on Sevres porcelain made between 1800 and 1847, with a 416-page catalogue. And several noted dealers of French antiques are participating in the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory, which opens next Friday. Maurice Segoura, an eminent Paris dealer who sells 18th- and 19th-century Russian, Italian, German and French antiques, is offering an important pair of signed Cresson Louis XV unpainted beechwood bergeres and a pair of Cresson commodes.

A fourth-generation Paris antiques dealer, Patrick Perrin, will show a set of four mahogany armchairs signed by Jacob, and a Lacroix Louis XVI chauffeuse. These are the kinds of ''serious'' antiques that top New York interior designers like Thierry Despont, Howard Slatkin, Robert Denning and Robert Couturier seek for their clients. Mr. Perrin tried to explain: ''There's more and more interest in 18th-century French furniture now, as opposed to English furniture, because French furniture is more original. When you are educated and have some culture, you come to the French. English furniture, after all, is inspired by the rest of Europe. It's not so creative.'' Andrea Blunck Frost, the head of the English and Continental furniture department at the William Doyle auction house, has a different theory. ''I see people buying French antiques because they are tired of the English country house look,'' she said. ''Maybe the Ralph Lauren look is passe. People want things that are prettier, less masculine and lighter.

People have money now, so they can afford dainty pieces that require care.'' On Oct. 22 William Doyle will auction English and Continental furniture, including a signed Louis XVI bergere with a low estimate of $3,000. Alistair Clarke, director of European furniture at Christie's in New York, speculates that people buy 18th-century French chairs to sit in. ''The 18th century was the age of supreme comfort,'' he said, ''and no one has ever made a more comfortable chair than the French. The mark and the line and the carving all count, but for Americans it's very important that the chairs be comfortable.'' Mr. Denning finds French chairs fairly reasonable in price, but then he has decorated some of the grandest homes in America. ''I encourage my clients to buy a whole salon set at auction, 8 or 10 Louis XVI chairs and a sofa,'' he said, ''even though Americans are frightened of things that match.'' Khalil Rizk, the president of the Chinese Porcelain Company, alternates exhibitions of Asian ceramics with European furniture.

Many of the 50 chairs on display (some are on loan) were designed for palaces and are signed by masters, but that doesn't mean they are boring. ''Rizk has a very good selection of chairs, including some in natural wood,'' said Mr. Clarke, of Christie's. ''The demand for bois naturel has been very, very strong in Paris for 10 years and is now coming to New York.'' One natural mahogany upholstered chair Mr. Rizk is selling for $25,000 has a lot of personality and a very low seat. Designed to be drawn up to the fire, it is called a chauffeuse a la Turque because it has an exaggerated arched back and saber-shaped rear legs, which were meant to appeal to the taste for things foreign and exotic (Turkish then meant anything east of Vienna). The chair, circa 1790, is stamped G. Jacob, one of the most famous of the 18th-century furniture makers. The daring lines explain why he was a favorite of Marie Antoinette, ''who was always fond of novelty,'' as James Cummings wrote in the Chinese Porcelain catalogue.

''I'm showing these chairs as sculpture, not as furniture,'' Mr. Rizk said. 'I stripped down the walls of the gallery, which are normally covered in sumptuous fabric, so people could see how well the chairs work in a contemporary setting.'' One large armchair, called a fauteuil a la reine (because it has a flat back), is an unsigned masterwork of the Regence period (1715-1723). Its armrests terminate in carved, wildly out-turned scrolls of walnut. It is upholstered in a tiger-pattern silk velvet that Brunschwig et Fils sells for $1,800 a yard retail. This chair ($50,000) is in a style often called gout Rothschild; that is, it is a first-rate antique made even more splendid by the sumptuous upholstery: it's over the top in the best sense. Not that Mr. Rizk has a monopoly on fine French chairs. Tony Victoria is the president of Frederick P. Victoria and Son on East 55th Street, which is known for its unusual l8th-century chairs. ''I only buy chairs that knock my socks off,'' he said.

''What I love in chairs is that they are the most personal of the decorative arts -- you sit on them -- and there is a close collaboration between the supplier and the consumer.'' He outlined the challenge of trying to imbue a chair with character: ''There is only a limited area in which to dazzle -- seat, back, legs -- and you have to do it with line and form. The appreciation of a chair is a subtle event.'' Mr. Victoria is selling, for $70,000, a Louis XV chaise d'amour (yes, a chair for making love) and, for $55,000, a Georges Jacob Louis XVI canape (settee) with individual upholstered round seat cushions that looks like the George Nelson marshmallow sofa of 1952. The fine French antiques in Christie's ''Arts of France'' auction include many being sold by Nancy Richardson, whose Manhattan apartment was decorated by Henri Samuel of Paris, widely considered the best designer of the last 30 years. One piece, estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000, is a Louis XV lit a la Turque, a bedlike couch with curving padded sides that terminate in scrolls.