. Crockery & glass journal . was erected in 1566. This factory wasoperated until 1644, when the devastationof the wars of the period wiped it out ofexistence, with practically all the otherfactories of the country. Owing to thelength of these wars, one hundredyears passed before the plant was , by royal deciee, on February 17,1767, land was donated for the erection of Co. (Cristalleries de Saint Louis), and itis impossible to tell the date on whichthose pioneers of a bygone generationlaid the foundation of a business whichhas become one of the most important ofits kind in the world
. Crockery & glass journal . was erected in 1566. This factory wasoperated until 1644, when the devastationof the wars of the period wiped it out ofexistence, with practically all the otherfactories of the country. Owing to thelength of these wars, one hundredyears passed before the plant was , by royal deciee, on February 17,1767, land was donated for the erection of Co. (Cristalleries de Saint Louis), and itis impossible to tell the date on whichthose pioneers of a bygone generationlaid the foundation of a business whichhas become one of the most important ofits kind in the world. The works of the company arelocated in the former county of Bitche,which was annexed in 1606 to the then
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