[559]

In the Inventory of the Duc de Penthièvre, 1738. See chap. xi.

[560]

"Une coiffure de point d'Alençon à raiseau."—Inv. de decès de Mademoiselle de Clermont, 1741. Again, 1743, Inv. de la Duchesse de Bourbon. Bib. Nat.

[561]

Among the objects of religious art exhibited in 1864 at the General Assembly of the Catholics of Belgium at Malines was a "voile de bénédiction," the handkerchief used to cover the ciborium, of point d'Alençon, with figures of the Virgin, St. Catherine, St. Ursula, and St. Barbara. It belonged to the Church of St. Christopher at Charleroi.

[562]

Séez has now no records of its manufacture.

[563]

Descr. du Dép. de l'Orne. An IX. Publiée par ordre du ministre de l'intérieur.