. History of lace. %^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 h
. History of lace. %^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. Colbert + 1683.—31. de Versailles. writes, . and I with difficulty appeased the multitude byassuring them that they w^ould not be deprived of the libertyof working. It is a fact that for many years the town ofAlengon subsists only by means of these small works of lace :that the same people make and sell, and in years of scarcitythey subsist only by this little industry, and that wishing to point dAlencon les reliefs etaientmoins enleves. On ne mettait passeulenient un fil, mais trois, cinq, huiton dix fils, suivant Iepaisseur durelief que Ion voulait obtenir puis,sur ce bourrage, se faisaient des points boucles tres serres de facon que laboucle fut presque sous les fils formantle relief. Cest ce point que certainsfabricants nomment point Colbert.—Madame Despierres, Histoire du PointcVAlencon.—Page 228, jjost. I90 HISTORY OF LACE take away their liberty, they were so incensed I had greatdifficulty in pacifying them. The Act, it appears, had come from the Parliament ofParis, but a
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