Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 284
ese cravats were either worn of point, in onepiece, or partly of muslin tied, with falling lace ends/(Fig. 75.) In 1679 the king gave a fete at Marly to the ehte of hisIjrilliant court. When, at sunset, the ladies retired to repairtheir toilettes, previous to the ball, each found in… … L(»Lvois. 16.)!.—(From his statue by Girardon. M. de Versailles.) 1674, she purchased the estate from which she afterwardsderived her title of Maintenon. anxious to render it pro-ductive, she enticed Flemish workers from the frontier toestablish a lace manufacture upon her newly-acquired…
Lace and lace making
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