. History of lace. of boldpattern with the grande bride ground, evidently a mansruffle ; the other had the barette or bride ground of pointde France ; the third picotee, showing that the three descrip-tions of lace were made contemporaneously at Argentan. The author of a little pamphlet on Argentan, ^ de Lonlay, remembers having seen in his youthin the Holy week, in the churches of St. ^lartin and , the statues of the apostles covered from head tofoot with this priceless point. Argentan is now much made at Burano. Plate one of their fine reproductions. ^^ The
. History of lace. of boldpattern with the grande bride ground, evidently a mansruffle ; the other had the barette or bride ground of pointde France ; the third picotee, showing that the three descrip-tions of lace were made contemporaneously at Argentan. The author of a little pamphlet on Argentan, ^ de Lonlay, remembers having seen in his youthin the Holy week, in the churches of St. ^lartin and , the statues of the apostles covered from head tofoot with this priceless point. Argentan is now much made at Burano. Plate one of their fine reproductions. ^^ These details on the manufacture ^ Embroidery has replaced this of Argentan have been furnished from industry among the ^^•orkers of the the archives of Alencon through the town and the hand-spinning of hemp kindness of M. Leon de la Sicotiere, among those of the country, the learned archaeologist of the Depart- ^^ Legende dii iwint dArgentan^ ment of the Orne (Mrs. Palliser, 1869). M. Eugene de Lonlay. Plate French. Point dArgentan.—Eighteenth century. Period Louis XV. Needle-point borders. Both these have the hexagonal ground of the genre Argentan. The upper one is chiefly filled in with the oeil de perdrix or reseau rosace. Width, 3| in. The lower one has been pieced together. Width, 7 in. Victoria and Albert Museum. To face page 208. 209 CHAPTER XV. ISLE DE FEANCE.—PAEIS (D^p. Seine). Quelle heure est-il ?Passe vous Ia dit ?Une petite fait-elle?De la qui ?La reine de Paris.—Old Nursery Song. Early in the seventeenth century, lace was extensivelymade in the environs of Paris, at Louvres, Gisors, Villiers-le-Bel, Montmorency, and other localities. Of this we haveconjfirmation in a work^ published 1634, in which, aftercommenting upon the sums of money spent in Flanders for ouvrages et passemens,^ tant de point couppe que dautres,which the king had put a stop to by the sumptuary law of1633, the author says :—^ Pour empescher icel
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