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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 301

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Nat. 1792. 6 Pelottes garnies de den-telle.— Linge du ci-devant Boi,Ibid. 176 HISTORY OF LACE the trimming of her sheets, whicli were of point cVArgentan,were worth at least 40,000 ecus. ^ To such a pitch had thetaste for lace-trimmed linen attained, that when, in 1739,Madame, eldest daughter of… … Madame Adelaide de France, Daughter of Louis AV.—(M. de Versailles.) cetait pour marier toutes les sept Mesdames.-^ (Figs.81, 82). Again, Swinburne writes from Paris: Thetrousseau of Mademoiselle de Matignon will cost 100,000crowns (£25,000). The expense here of rigging^ out abride is equal to a…

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