. History of lace . is pee, le manneqviin precieux, affuble des marriage to Marie de Medicis : Fron- modes les plus nouvelles . . passe de tenac tells me that you desire patterns Paris ii Londres tons les mois, et va de of our fashion in dress. I send you, lii repandre ses graces dans toute therefore, some model dolls.—Miss IEurope. II va au Nord et du ]\Iidi, Freers Hcnrij IV. il penetre a Constantinople et a Peters- It was also the custom of Venice, at bourg, et le pli qi;a donne une main the annual fair held in the Piazza of francoise se repete chez toute les St. Mark, on the day of the Asc
. History of lace . is pee, le manneqviin precieux, affuble des marriage to Marie de Medicis : Fron- modes les plus nouvelles . . passe de tenac tells me that you desire patterns Paris ii Londres tons les mois, et va de of our fashion in dress. I send you, lii repandre ses graces dans toute therefore, some model dolls.—Miss IEurope. II va au Nord et du ]\Iidi, Freers Hcnrij IV. il penetre a Constantinople et a Peters- It was also the custom of Venice, at bourg, et le pli qi;a donne une main the annual fair held in the Piazza of francoise se repete chez toute les St. Mark, on the day of the Ascension nations, humbles observatrices du gout (a fair which dates from 1180), to de la rue Saint-Honore. expose in the most conspicuous place ^^ The practice was much more of the fair a rag doll, which served as ancient. M. Ladomie asserts that in a model for tlie fashions for the year.— the Royal expenses for 1391, figure so Michiel, Origiiic (hllc Fcstc livres for a doll sent to the Platk ^ 0* -^ /<; o 2^ o W -a (-\ 1—1 o »—1 r^ cc J ^ U3 en D « m To /ace page 170. I/f CHAPTER XL LOUIS XV. Le luxe corroiupt tout, ut le riche qui en jouit, et le pauvre qui le convoitc. —J. J. Eousseau. Louis XIV. is now dead, to the delight of a wearied nation :we enter on the Regency and times of Louis XV.—thatage of fourchettes, manchettes, and jabots—in wdiich thehutteiHy abbes, les porte-dentelles par excellence, playedso conspicuous a part. The origin of the weeping ruffles, if Mercier^ is to l)e<.re<lited, may be assigned to other causes than royal decreeor the edicts of fashion. Les grandes manchettes furentintroduites par des fripons qui voulaient filouter au jeu etescamoter des cartes. It never answers to investigate toodeeply the origin of a new invented mode,—sufficient to say,ruffles became a necessary adjunct to the toilet of everygentleman. So indispensable were they, the Parisians areaccused of adopting the cu
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