140 HISTORY OF LACE. garnies du meme point d’Angleterre etc. Cette fourniture coiite environ 80,000 livres, quoique Madame de Luynes n’ait pas fait renouveler les beaux couvrepieds de la Heine.” These garnitures were renewed every year, and Madame de Luynes inherited the old ones. Madame de Crequy, describing her visit to the Duchesse Douairiere de La Ferte, says, when that lady received her, she was lying in a state bed, under a coverlet made of point de Venise Fig. 7i!. Maritime Sophie ric France, daughter of Louis XV. By lirouais. 17^2. Mus. Mat. Versailles. in one piece. “ I am persuaded,” she adds, “ that the trimming of her sheets, which were of point d’Argentan, were worth at least 40,000 crowns. 21 To such a pitch had the taste for lace- trimmed linen attained that, when, in 1739, Madame, eldest •‘1770. 7 mi. 1/S vraie Valenciennes pour garnir unc taie d’oreiller, a 60 11. 427 10.”—Comptes de Madame du Barry. “ 1707. 7 an. tournante d’Angleterre pour garnir (les plottes” (pincushions), “ a 50 11. 350 00.”—II,id. “1788. 12 Folottes garnies de deir telle.”—Ibid. “G tronsses a peigne garnies de ilentelle.”—Fourni your Mgr. le Dauphin. Arch. Nut. “ 1702. 0 Pelottes garnies de dentelle.” —Linge du <;i-devant Hoi. Ihid. 21 “ Souvenirs.”