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} A, i /*’ / •- /C .' f-V *< «X« *''*.! * jr/"'*' C,,.-. ™v' c ' i'' ^ *•’"*'• **L, f~r~. ?>*£*’* " ,CHAMPAGNE. / . ..*;,*. «» , . ^ ' -’' there, but, to infer from the Great Wardrobe Account of Charles I., the outwork of Sedan had then reached our country, and was of great price. We find in one account, 31 a charge for “six hand- j some Sedan and Italian collars of cutwork, and for 62 yards of needlework purl for six pairs of linen ruffs,” the enormous sum of 116?. 6s. And again, in the last year of his reign, he has “ six handsome Pultenarian Sedan collars of cutwork, with the same accompaniment of 72 yards of needlework purl,” amounting to 106?. 16s. 32 What these Pultenarian collars may have been, we cannot, at this distance of time, surmise; but the entries afford proof that the excellency of the Sedan cutwork was known in England. Lace was made in the seventeenth century at Sedan, O Donchery, Charleville, Mezieres, and Troyes. f- The thread manufacturers of Sedan furnished the material necessary for all the lace-workers of Champagne. Much point ^ de Sedan was made at Charleville, and the laces of this last- named town 33 were valued at from four up to fifty livres the ell, and even sometimes at a higher rate. The greater part of the produce was sold in Paris, the rest found a ready market in England, Holland, Germany, and Poland. 34 Pignariol de la Force, writing later, says the manufacture of points and laces at Sedan, formerly so flourishing, is now of little value. 35 The importance of the lace industry in Champagne, second only to that of Alenpon, naturally pointed it out as a fitting site for the new manufacture of point de France; so we find Sedan, Rheims, and Chateau-Thierry among the towns mentioned in the declaration of 1665. In 1666, Colbert, by order of the king, writes to the governor of Sedan, enjoining him to take the greatest precautions against the malice of the dealers, who were in the habit of having work executed at Venice which they sold at court and in the kingdom as point de France, the work of Sedan. Rheims, again, was the subject of a close correspondence. General Hoguebert wrote to Colbert, on the 18th January 1665, 31 “Eidem pro 6 divit Sedan et Italic xi. to xii. colaris opere sciss et pro 62 purles open? 33 In 1700, there were several lace acuo pro 6 par manic linteaf eisdem, 1161. manufacturers at Charleville, the prin- 6sGit. Ward. Ace. Car. I. ix. to xi. cipal of whom was named Vigoureux. V. R. o. “ Hist, de Charleville,” Charleville, 1854. 32 “ Eidem pro 6 divit Pultenarian 34 Savary, ed. 1726. Sedan do opere sciss colaris et pro 72 ^ “Description de la France, ed. purles divit opere acuo pro manic linteaf 1752.