Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 285
r vous travaillez au point. Another,^ an engravingof Le Paultre, dated 1676, is entitled Dame en Deshabillede Chambre (Fig. 77). La France est la tete du monde (as regards fashion),says Victor Hugo, cyclope dont Paris est Iasil ; and writersof all ages seem to have been of the same opinion. It… … Madame de Maintenon.—(From her portrait. M. de ^■ersail]es.) story of the Fontanges. How in the hurry, of the chasethe locks of the royal favourite burst from the ribbon thatbound them—how the fair huntress, hurriedly tying the lacekerchief round her head, produced in one moment a coiffureso light,…
Lace and lace making -- History
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