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garnies du meme point d’Angleterre etc. Cette fourniture couteenviron 30,000 livrcs, quoique Madame de Luynes n’ait pas faitrenouveler les beaux couvrepieds de la Heine ” These garnitureswere renewed every year, and Madame de Luynes inherited theold ones.

Madame de Crequy, describing her visit to the DuchesseDouairiere de La Ferte, says, when that lady received her, shewas lying in a state bed, under a coverlet made of point de Yenise

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Madame Sopbie do Franco, daughter of Louin X V. By Iirouais. 17^2. Mus. Nat. Versailles.

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in one piece. “I am persuaded,” she adds, “that the trimmingof her sheets, which were of point d’Argentan, were worth atleast 40,000 crowns. 21 To such a pitch had the taste for lace-trimmed linen attained that, when, in 1739, Madame, eldest

“ 1770. 7 an. 1 /8 vruie Valenciennespour garnir une taio d’oreillcr, ii GO 11.427 10.”— Comptes de Madame du Barry.

“ 1707. 7 au. tournante d’Angleterrepour garnir des plottes” (pincushions),“ a 50 11. 350 00 . '—Ibid.

“ 17S8. 12 relottes garnies de den -

telle.”—Lin'd.

“ 6 trousses a peigne garnies dedentelle.”— Fourni pour Mgr. le Dauphin.Arch. Mat.

“ 1792. 6 Pelottes garnies de dentelle.”—Linge du fi-derant Koi. Ibid.

11 “ Souvenirs.”