Royal Proclamation of 1665 Establishing the Manufacture of the Points de France
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Full French text of the August 1665 letters patent of Louis XIV granting Jean Pluymers and Paul and Catherine de Marcq a nine-year privilege to manufacture lace and thread work in the manner of Venice and Genoa, to be called Points de France. It specifies the towns of manufacture (Le Quesnoy, Arras, Reims, Sedan, Château-Thierry, Loudun, Alençon, Aurillac), the numbers of Venetian and Flemish lace-makers to be brought in, the subsidies, tax exemptions, naturalization of foreign workers, and royal warehouses in Paris. Two plates show a portrait of Colbert by Mignard and a piece of Point de France needle lace in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1930
- Languages
- French, English
- Pages
- 7
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