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tian points into France formed a continual subject of corre-spondence between him and the French ambassador at Venice.“ The French,” says Savary, “ no longer purchase these articles,having established themselves manufactures which rival those ofthe Adriatic.” And that the French exported largely theirproducts would appear from the same writer : “ Russia and Polandwere its great marts.” In 1(180, in “ Britannia Languens,” a dis-course upon trade, 6 it states that “ the laces commonly calledpoints (le Venice now come mostly from France, and amount to avast sum yearly.”

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Gilbert. From his portrait, Musee Nationals, Versailles.

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January 6, 1673, Colbert writes to the Comte d’Avaux,ambassador at Venice, thanking him for the “collet de pointrebrode que vous m’avez envoye que j’ai trouve fort beau. Je leconfronterai avec ceux qui se font dans nos manufactures, mais jedois vous dire a 1 avance que l’on en a fait dans le royaumed aussi beaux. If the French manufacture attained such per-fection, we may fairly infer that many of the fine points nowattributed to Venice are of French manufacture, Colbert’s jabot(Fig. 80), for instance, and probably Coloured Plate III., p. 44.

A memoir drawn up in 1698 by M. de Pommereu 6 is the next

teentli^' I f' C ^ S f ° n >i^ ra '' e ^ ie ® evcn " 6 “ Memoire eoncemant la GeneraliteChill iol f Uf ^’ published by Mac- d’Alentjon, dresse" par M. de Pommereu.”1S56 ’’ a '* 10 ° Xpc " 8e of L<ml Montagu, 1098. Bib. Nat. MSS. Fonds Morte-

mart, No. 89.