A great deal of care, money, and artistic skill was lavished on the interiors of these French regime churches, reflecting the baroque style of the age of Louis XIV. Whereas in France moulded plaster was used for decoration, in New France carved wood was used. This was then painted in a rich cream colour with blue and gold trim. The colony produced several highly skilled wood carvers who passed their skills from generation to generation by the apprentice training system. One family, the Levasseurs, produced gifted artists for seventy years. An example of their work is the Ursuline chapel at Quebec, done by Noel Levasseur in 1734. Jean Trudel of the National Gallery of Canada has written an excellent study of this chapel. (see bibliography).
