. History of lace. nister, Je vois que vous seriez bien aise destablir dansle royaume la manufacture des points de Venise. ce (juise pourrait faire en envoyant dicy quelques filles des meil- ^^ Chroniques deV(Eil-de-B(xuf. * 1690. Chroniqucs de VCEil-dc- - Madame de Motteville is not Boeiif. complimentary to the ladies of the ^^ 1661, ]May 27; 1662, Jan. 1 ; Spanish Court: Elles avoient pen de 1664, May 131, Sept. 18, and Dec. 12. linge, she writes, et lem*s dentelles ^^ On fabriquait precedemment nous parurent laides.—Memoires ces especes de dentelles guipures, dont 2)our servir a Vhistoire d
. History of lace. nister, Je vois que vous seriez bien aise destablir dansle royaume la manufacture des points de Venise. ce (juise pourrait faire en envoyant dicy quelques filles des meil- ^^ Chroniques deV(Eil-de-B(xuf. * 1690. Chroniqucs de VCEil-dc- - Madame de Motteville is not Boeiif. complimentary to the ladies of the ^^ 1661, ]May 27; 1662, Jan. 1 ; Spanish Court: Elles avoient pen de 1664, May 131, Sept. 18, and Dec. 12. linge, she writes, et lem*s dentelles ^^ On fabriquait precedemment nous parurent laides.—Memoires ces especes de dentelles guipures, dont 2)our servir a Vhistoire dAnne on ornait les aubes des pretres, les dAutrichey rochets des eveques et les jupons des ^^ Madame de Sevigne mentions femmes de qualite.—Roland de la these dresses: Avez-vous oui parler Platiere. The articles on lace by des transparens ? . . de robes noires Eoland and Savary have been copied transparentes ou des belles dentelles by all succeeding writers on the ■dAngleterre.—Lettres. subject. Fio-. Canons of Louis XIY.—(M. de Versailles. 16C0.) To face page 154. LOUIS XIV 155 leures ouvrieres qui pussent instruire celles de France avecle temps. ^^ Monseigneur de Bonzys suggestion was accepted, and afew years later (1673) Colbert writes to M. le Comtedi\vaux, who succeeded M. de Bonzy as ambassador ate Venice : I have gladly received the collar of needlepointlace worked in relief that you have sent me, and I find itvery beautiful. I shall have it compared with those newlaces being made by our own lace-makers, although I maytell you beforehand that as good specimens are now made inthis kingdom. ^^ Alen9on, an old lace-making centre, waschosen as the seat of the new manufacture.^ Favier-Duboulay writes to Colbert that, before the introductionof the new points de France, lace-making was to thepeasants une manne, et une vraie benediction du ciel, quisest espandue sur tout ce pays. The art had spread farand w^ide through the district about x^len^on ; children ofseve
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