. History of lace. for mens ruiHes, which they fabricated ofexquisite beauty. A considerable quantity of blonde was made at Meran, avillaore in the neis^hbourhood of Beauvoisin, but the com-merce had fallen off at the end of the last century. Theseblondes go by the familiar name of bisettes. ORLEANOIS. Colberts attempts at establishing a manufiictory of pointde France at Montargis appear by his letters to have beenunsuccessful. BEERY. Nor were the reports from Bourges more encouraging. POITOU. Lace was made at Loudun, one of Colberts foundations,in the seventeenth century, but the fabric has a
. History of lace. for mens ruiHes, which they fabricated ofexquisite beauty. A considerable quantity of blonde was made at Meran, avillaore in the neis^hbourhood of Beauvoisin, but the com-merce had fallen off at the end of the last century. Theseblondes go by the familiar name of bisettes. ORLEANOIS. Colberts attempts at establishing a manufiictory of pointde France at Montargis appear by his letters to have beenunsuccessful. BEERY. Nor were the reports from Bourges more encouraging. POITOU. Lace was made at Loudun, one of Colberts foundations,in the seventeenth century, but the fabric has always Ijeencommon. Mignonettes et dentelles a poignet de chemises,et de prix de toutes especes, from one sol six deniers theell, to forty sols the piece of twelve ells. Children began lace-making at a very early age. Loudunfournit quelques dentelles communes, says the GovernmentEeporter of 1803. Peuchet speaks of lace manufactories at Perpignan, Aix, ^^ Descr. dn Dcj. de la Vioinc, par le Citoyen Cochon. An X. fcb. To face page 256, POITOU 257 Cahors, Bordeaux,^^ etc., but they do not appear to have beeuof any importance, and no longer exist. ^* -^ Ce nest pas une grande choseque la manufacture de points qui estetablie dans Ihopital de Bourdeaux.—Savary. Edit. 1726. ^* Table of the Number of Lace-workers in France in 1851. (FromM. Aubry.) Manufacture of Chantillyand Alencon:— Orne Seine-et-Oise . . Eure \ 12,500 Seine-et-Marne . Oise Manufacture of Lille, Arras,and Bailleul:— Pas-de-Calais . . / Manufacture of Normandy,Caen, and Bayeux :— Calvados ] Manche [ 55,000 Seine-Inferieure . jManufacture of Lorraine,Mirecourt :— y/^^gj? 122,000 Meurthe J Manufacture of Auvergne,Le Puy:— Cantal \ Haute Loire .... 130 ooa Lou-e j Puy-de-D6me. . ;Application-work at Paris \ „ ^^q,and Lace-makers ... J Total 240,00a In his Heport on the Universal Ex-hibition of 1867, M. Aubry estimatesthe number at 200,000—then- averagewages from 1 to 1^ francs a day often hours labour; som
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