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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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its, robes sur le grand panier, robes greatest extravagance in lace ajuste- sur le petit panier, with a pattern of ments, barbes, collerettes, volants, the material affixed to each entry, and quilles, coeffes, etc., of Argentan, An- the name of the couturiere who made gleterre, and point a Taiguille. the dress. One Levite alone ap- ■ The great fashion. The shoes were pears trimmed with blonde. There is embroidered in diamonds, which were also the Gazette of Madame Elizabeth, scarcely worn on other parts of the for 1792. I«2 HISTORY OF LACE * Blond a fond dAlencon seme a poix, a mouclies, nowusurps the place of tlie old points. Even one of the grandes dames de la vieille cour/ Madame Adelaide deFrance herself, is represented in her picture by MadameGuiard with a spotted handkerchief, probably of blonde(Fig. 85). The Church alone protects the ancient fabrics. The laceof the Eohan family, almost hereditary Princes Archbishopsof Strasburg, was of inestimable value. AVe met, writes is:.
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Madame Adelaide de France.—After a picture by Madame Guiard, dated 178. M. de Versailles. the Baroness de Oberkirch, * the cardinal coming out of hischapel dressed in a soutane of scarlet moire and rochet ofEnglish lace of inestimable value. When on great occasionshe officiates at Versailles, he wears an alb of old lace en pointa 1aiguilleof such beauty that his assistants were almostafraid to touch it. His arms and device are worked in amedallion above the large flowers. This alb is estimated at100,000 livres. On the day of which I speak he wore therochet of English lace, one of his least beautiful, as his LOUIS XVI. TO THE EMPIRE 183 secretary, tlie Abbe Georget, told me. ^ On his elevationto the see of Bourges (1859), Monseigneur de La TourdAuvergne celebrated mass at Eome arrayed with all thesacerdotal ornaments of point dAlen9on of thp finest work-manship. This lace descended to him from his uncle,Cardinal de La Tour dAuvergne, who had inherited it fromhis mother, Madame dAumal

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