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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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nister, Je vois que vous seriez bien aise destablir dansle royaume la manufacture des points de Venise. ce (juise pourrait faire en envoyant dicy quelques filles des meil- ^^ Chroniques deV(Eil-de-B(xuf. * 1690. Chroniqucs de VCEil-dc- - Madame de Motteville is not Boeiif. complimentary to the ladies of the ^^ 1661, )May 27; 1662, Jan. 1 ; Spanish Court: Elles avoient pen de 1664, May 131, Sept. 18, and Dec. 12. linge, she writes, et lem*s dentelles ^^ On fabriquait precedemment nous parurent laides.—Memoires ces especes de dentelles guipures, dont 2)our servir a Vhistoire dAnne on ornait les aubes des pretres, les dAutrichey rochets des eveques et les jupons des ^^ Madame de Sevigne mentions femmes de qualite.—Roland de la these dresses: Avez-vous oui parler Platiere. The articles on lace by des transparens ? . . . de robes noires Eoland and Savary have been copied transparentes ou des belles dentelles by all succeeding writers on the ■dAngleterre.—Lettres. subject. Fio-. 72.
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Canons of Louis XIY.—(M. de Versailles. 16C0.) To face page 154. LOUIS XIV 155 leures ouvrieres qui pussent instruire celles de France avecle temps. ^^ Monseigneur de Bonzys suggestion was accepted, and afew years later (1673) Colbert writes to M. le Comtedi\vaux, who succeeded M. de Bonzy as ambassador ate Venice : I have gladly received the collar of needlepointlace worked in relief that you have sent me, and I find itvery beautiful. I shall have it compared with those newlaces being made by our own lace-makers, although I maytell you beforehand that as good specimens are now made inthis kingdom. ^^ Alen9on, an old lace-making centre, waschosen as the seat of the new manufacture.^ Favier-Duboulay writes to Colbert that, before the introductionof the new points de France, lace-making was to thepeasants une manne, et une vraie benediction du ciel, quisest espandue sur tout ce pays. The art had spread farand w^ide through the district about x^len^on ; children ofseven years of age an

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