Nor were the reports from Bourges more encouraging.
POITOU.
Lace was made at Loudun, one of Colbert's foundations, in the seventeenth century, but the fabric has always been common. "Mignonettes et dentelles à poignet de chemises, et de prix de toutes espèces," from one sol six deniers the ell, to forty sols the piece of twelve ells.
Children began lace-making at a very early age. "Loudun fournit quelques dentelles communes," says the Government Reporter of 1803.[[686]]
Fig. 112.
Point de Bourgogne.—Bobbin-made.
To face page 256.
Peuchet speaks of lace manufactories at Perpignan, Aix, Cahors, Bordeaux,[[687]] etc., but they do not appear to have been of any importance, and no longer exist.[[688]]