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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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and thoughFrance cannot compete with Belgium in the points ofBrussels, or the Valenciennes of Ypres, she has no rival inher points of Alencon and her white blondes, or her ))lacksilk laces. To begin with Alencon, the only French lace notmade on the pillow. ALENgON (Dep. Oene), NORMANDY. Alenchon est sous Sarthe assis,U luic divise le pays.—Bomant de Ron. We have already related how the manufacture of pointlace was established by Colbert. The entrepremurs hadfound the lace industry flourishing at the time of the pointde France. (Page 155.) Point dAieneon is mentioned in the Revolte des Passe-mens, IGGl, evidently as an advanced manufacture; but themonopoly of the privileged workmen—the new-comers —displeased the old w^orkwomen, and Colbert ^ was too despotic The \\?ai\e ijoint Colbert, adopted La brode a toujours existe dans le in memory of the great Minister, is point dAieneon, aussi que dans leapplied to point laces in high relief. point de Venise, seulement dans le Plate LIV.
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%^c3 ^ oo o .■-( to <d?-l - Sow o^ 2 r^ O <D ^1 - Eh m O O To face page 188. ALENQON 189 in his orders prohibiting to make any kind of point exceptthat of the royal manufactory, and made the people soindignant that they revolted. The intendant, Favier-Duboulay, writes to Colbert, August 1665, that one namedLe Prevost, of this town, having given suspicion to thepeople that he was about to form an establishment of ouvrages de fil, the women to the number of abovea thousand assembled, and pursued him so that, if he hadnot managed to escape their fury, he would assuredly havesuffered from their violence. He took refuge with me, he Fig. 86.

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