Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 318
ceptthat of the royal manufactory, and made the people soindignant that they revolted. The intendant, Favier-Duboulay, writes to Colbert, August 1665, that one namedLe Prevost, of this town, having given suspicion to thepeople that he was about to form an establishment of ouvrages de fil, the women… … Colbert + 1683.—M. de Versailles. WTites, and I with difficulty appeased the multitude byassuring them that they would not be deprived of the libertyof working. It is a fact that for many years the town ofAlencon subsists only by means of these small works of lace :that the same people make and…
Lace and lace making -- History
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