. History of lace. re of opinion that the only way is for M. De La Leu toendeavour to get some of the workwomen to suborn othersto work for him under the promise of higher wages thanthey can earn elsewhere. M. De La Leu agrees with methere is no other course to pursue ; and I have promised himthat, in case any appeal is made to me, I shall answer thatthincys must be so, as the work is doincr for the kinof. Fromthis period we have scarcely any notices concerning the fabricof Argentan. In 1763 the widow Lou vain endeavoured to establish atMortagne (Orne) a manufacture of lace like that of Alenco
. History of lace. re of opinion that the only way is for M. De La Leu toendeavour to get some of the workwomen to suborn othersto work for him under the promise of higher wages thanthey can earn elsewhere. M. De La Leu agrees with methere is no other course to pursue ; and I have promised himthat, in case any appeal is made to me, I shall answer thatthincys must be so, as the work is doincr for the kinof. Fromthis period we have scarcely any notices concerning the fabricof Argentan. In 1763 the widow Lou vain endeavoured to establish atMortagne (Orne) a manufacture of lace like that of Alenconand Argentan, and proposed to send workers from these twotowns to teach the art gratuitously to the girls of do not know what became of her project; but at thesame period the Epoux Malbiche de Boislaunay applied forpermission to establish an office at i^rgentan, with theordinary exemptions, under the title of Royal title and exemptions were refused. There were then Xov. 12th, 1745. COOi. To face page 206. ARGENT AN 207 (1763) at Argentan three manufactures of point de France,without counting the general hospital of St. Louis, in whichit was made for the profit of the institution, and evidentlywith success ; for in 1764, a widow Eoger was in treatywith the hospital to teach her two daughters the fabricationof point dArgentan. They were to be boarded, and givesix years of their time. The fine on non-performance was80 livres. In 1781, the Sieur Gravelle Desvallees made afruitless application to establish a manufacture at Argentan ;nor could even the children of the widow Wyriot obtain arenewal of the privilege granted to their mother.^ Gravellewas ruined by the Kevolution, and died in 1830. Arthur Young, in ^1788, estimates the annual value ofArgentan point at 500,000 livres. Taking these data, we may fix the reigns of Louis Louis XYI. as the period when point dArgentan w^as atits highest prosperity. It appears in the inventories of thepersonage
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