. History of lace . enticed Flemish workers from the frontier toesta])lish a lace manufacture upon her newly-acquired mar-quisate. How the fabric succeeded history does not relate,but the costly laces depicted in her portraits (Fig. J^) havenot the appearance of home manufacture. Point lace-making became a favourite employment amono-ladies. We have many engravings of this reign ; one, 1691,of a fille de qualite thus occupied, with the motto, Apres Mercurc Galant. Fev. 1685. Ihi,L 2 164 HISTORY OF LACE diner vous travaillez au point. Another,^ an engravingof Le Paultre, dated 1676, is en
. History of lace . enticed Flemish workers from the frontier toesta])lish a lace manufacture upon her newly-acquired mar-quisate. How the fabric succeeded history does not relate,but the costly laces depicted in her portraits (Fig. J^) havenot the appearance of home manufacture. Point lace-making became a favourite employment amono-ladies. We have many engravings of this reign ; one, 1691,of a fille de qualite thus occupied, with the motto, Apres Mercurc Galant. Fev. 1685. Ihi,L 2 164 HISTORY OF LACE diner vous travaillez au point. Another,^ an engravingof Le Paultre, dated 1676, is entitled Dame en Deshabillede Chambre (Fig. 77). La France est la tete du monde (as regards fashion),says Victor Hugo, cyclope dont Paris est Iasil ; and writersof all ages seem to have been of the same opinion. It wasabout the year 1680 that the Mode feconde en mille inventions,Monstre, prodige etrange et diffornie, was suddenly exemplified in France. All readers of this sjreat reion will recall to mind the Fir. Madame de Maintenon.—(From her portrait. M. de ^?ersail]es.) story of the Fontanges. How in the hurry, of the chasethe locks of the royal favourite burst from the ribbon thatbound them—how the fair huntress, hurriedly tying the lacekerchief round her head, produced in one moment a coiffureso light, so artistic, that Louis XIV., enchanted, prayed herto retain it for that night at court. The lady obeyed theroyal command. This mixture of lace and ribbon, now wornfor the first time, caused a sensation, and the next day all . ?** At the Mazarin Library there are the Archives Nat. is a large series four folio volumes of engravings, after preserved in cartons numbered M. 815 Bonnard and others, of the costumes to &23, etc., labelled Gravures de of the time of Louis XIV. ; and at Modes. LOUIS XIV 165la Fontaiioe. the ladies of the court appeared coitfees a(See Madame du Lude, Fig. 79.) But this head-dress, with its tiers of point mounted onwires/^ soon ceased to be arti
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