. History of lace. s petites writes, Ce fut une dame Gilberte, qui filles auxquelles elle montroit a faire avait fait son apprentissage a Venise, ce point .... a present je vous puis et etait native dAlencon. Des quelle asseurer quil y a plus de 8,000 fut a ses ordres, ce ministre (Colbert) personnes qui y travaillent dans la logea dans le magnifique chateau Alen<3on, dans Seez, dans Argentan, de Lonrai, quil possedait pres dAlen- Palaise .... con.—Annuaire de VOrne. 156 HISTORY OF LACE point, and making lier an advance of 50,000 crowns, estab-lished her at liis chateau of Lonrai (Fig. 73),
. History of lace. s petites writes, Ce fut une dame Gilberte, qui filles auxquelles elle montroit a faire avait fait son apprentissage a Venise, ce point .... a present je vous puis et etait native dAlencon. Des quelle asseurer quil y a plus de 8,000 fut a ses ordres, ce ministre (Colbert) personnes qui y travaillent dans la logea dans le magnifique chateau Alen<3on, dans Seez, dans Argentan, de Lonrai, quil possedait pres dAlen- Palaise .... con.—Annuaire de VOrne. 156 HISTORY OF LACE point, and making lier an advance of 50,000 crowns, estab-lished her at liis chateau of Lonrai (Fig. 73), near Alencon,with thirty forewomen, whom he had, at great expense,caused to be brought over from Venice. In a short timeMadame Gilbert arrived at Paris with the first specimens ofher fabric. The king, inspired by Colbert with a desire tosee the work, during supper at Versailles announced to hiscourtiers he had just established a manufacture of pointmore beautiful than that of Venice, and appointed a day Fig. Chateau de Lonrai, Dep. Orne. when he would inspect the specimens. The laces wereartistically arranged over the walls of a room hung withcrimson damask, and shown to the best advantage. Theking expressed himself delighted. He ordered a large sumto be given to Madame Gilbert, and desired that no otherlace should appear at court except the new fabric, uponwhich he bestowed the name of point de France.^ Scarcely ^^ Mcmoircs JiistoHques siir la ville dAlencon, M. Odolant , 1787. Plate LI.
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