. History of lace . r le grand panier, robes greatest extravagance in lace ajuste- sur le petit panier, with a pattern of t> 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 Iaiguille. the dress. One Levite alone ap- ? The great fashion. The shoes were peais 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. l82 in STORY OF LACE Blond a fond dAlencon seme a poix, a mou
. History of lace . r le grand panier, robes greatest extravagance in lace ajuste- sur le petit panier, with a pattern of t> 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 Iaiguille. the dress. One Levite alone ap- ? The great fashion. The shoes were peais 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. l82 in STORY OF LACE Blond a fond dAlencon seme a poix, a mouclies, nowusurps the place of the old points. Even one of the grandes dames de la vieille cour, Madame Adelaide deFrance herself, is represented in her picture by Madame(7uiard 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 Fig. <S, Madame Adelaiue de France.—After a picture by Madame Guianl, dated 17S7. 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 Iaiguille of such beauty that his assistants were almostafraid to touch it. His arms and device are worked in amedal] ion above the large flowers. This alb is estimated at100,000 livres. On the day of which I speak he wore therochet of Ens^lish lace, one of his least beautiful, as his LOUIS XVI. TO THE EMPIRE 18- secretaiy, tlie Abbe Georget. told me. ^ On his elevationto the see of Bourges (1859), Monseigneur de La TourdAuverojne celebrated mass at Rome arrayed with all thesacerdotal ornaments of point dAlengon of the finest work-manship. This lace descended to him from his uncle,Cardinal de La Tour dAuvergne, who had inherited it fromhis
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